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New York Exposed

Author : Daniel Czitrom
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199382131
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book New York Exposed written by Daniel Czitrom and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a Sunday morning in early 1892, Reverend Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst ascended to his pulpit at the Madison Square Presbyterian Church in New York and delivered one of the most explosive sermons in the city's history. Municipal life, he charged, was morally corrupt. Vice was rampant. And the city's police force and its Tammany Hall politicians were"a lying, perjured, rum-soaked, and libidinous lot." Denounced by city and police officials as a self-righteous "blatherskite," Parkhurst resolved to prove his case. The bespectacled minister descended his pulpit and in disguise visited gin joints and brothels, taking notes and gathering evidence. Two years later, his findings forced the New York State Senate to investigate the New York Police Department. The Lexow Committee heard testimony from nearly 700 witnesses, who revealed in shocking-and headline-dominating-detail just how deeply the NYPD was involved in, and benefitted from, the vice economy. Parkhurst's campaign had kick-started the Progressive Movement. New York Exposed offers a narrative history of the first major crusade to clean up Gotham. Daniel Czitrom does full justice to this spellbinding story by telling it within the larger contexts of national politics, poverty, patronage, vote fraud and vote suppression, and police violence. The effort to root out corrupt cops and crooked politicians morphed into something much more profound: a public reckoning over what New York-and the American city-had become since the Civil War. Animated by as vivid a cast as New York has ever produced, the book's key characters include Police Superintendent Thomas Byrnes and Inspector Alexander "Clubber" Williams, the nation's most famous cops, as well as anarchist revolutionary Emma Goldman, the zealous prosecutor John W. Goff, and an array of politicos, immigrant leaders, labor bosses, prostitutes, show-business entrepreneurs, counterfeiters, and reformers and muckrakers determined to change business as usual. New York Exposed offers an unforgettable portrait of a city in a truly transformative moment.

Adventure Journalism in the Gilded Age

Author : Katrina J. Quinn
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476642095
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Adventure Journalism in the Gilded Age written by Katrina J. Quinn and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-07-12 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These new essays tell the stories of daring reporters, male and female, sent out by their publishers not to capture the news but to make the news--indeed to achieve star billing--and to capitalize on the Gilded Age public's craze for real-life adventures into the exotic and unknown. They examine the adventure journalism genre through the work of iconic writers such as Mark Twain and Nellie Bly, as well as lesser-known journalistic masters such as Thomas Knox and Eliza Scidmore, who took to the rivers and oceans, mineshafts and mountains, rails and trails of the late nineteenth century, shaping Americans' perceptions of the world and of themselves.

An English Reporter in Gilded Age New York

Author : Harry H. Marks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781950347353
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book An English Reporter in Gilded Age New York written by Harry H. Marks and published by . This book was released on 2022-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the late 1870s, English reporter Harry H. Marks covered New York City in intimate and often idiosyncratic detail. He wrote about the tenements, Chinese immigrants, burglary tools, French communists, organ grinders, trained monkeys, and bohemians.These 30 stories, published in 1888 as "Small Change; or, Lights and Shades of New York" (1882), are being reprinted because they shine a rarely seen light on the common people of the city.Pawnbroker to the Rich: "See that solid silver pitcher; that was presented years ago to a well-known gentleman by A. T. Stewart, Wm. B. Astor, Brown Brothers and others. ? There on the side were the names of Stewart and Astor. I erased, them, and if you want to present it to Mayor Grace, I will engrave his name on it and give it to you cheap."Organ Grinders: "At all seasons of the year the organ-grinder, of all men, battens on the misfortunes of others; for, strange to say among a music-loving people, he is most liberally paid when the payment is conditional upon his going as far away as possible."Chinese Men: "Many Chinamen have found white wives and live happily with them. I had some conversation with a bright, intelligent Irish girl, the wife of a young Chinaman, and she told me that she was well satisfied with her lot ? because he was sober, kind, had plenty of money and did not run after other women.""An English Reporter in Gilded Age New York" is history as observation and reportage about people who never appear in the history books. Some of it is satirical ("The Midsummer Maiden"), some of it sad ("Women Who Work"), and some a celebration of life ("A Bavarian Fest Tag"). It's a book for those interested in New York City, the Gilded Age, and historical fiction. Marks' New York is unforgettable.

How the Other Half Lives

Author : Jacob Riis
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 145850042X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (585 download)

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Download or read book How the Other Half Lives written by Jacob Riis and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Gilded Age

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Gilded Age written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Author : Wendy Martin Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1610697642
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Gilded Age and Progressive Era written by Wendy Martin Ph.D. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a one-stop reference work covering the Gilded Age and Progressive Era that serves teachers and their students. This book helps students to better understand key pieces in literature from the Gilded Age and Progressive Era by putting them in the context of history, society, and culture through historical context essays, literary analysis, chronologies, documents, and suggestions for discussion and further research. It provides teachers and students with selections that align with the ELA Common Core Standards and that also offer useful connections for curriculum that integrates American literature and social studies. The book covers Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper, Willa Cather's A Lost Lady, and Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. Readers will be able to appreciate the significance of this period through these canonical and widely taught works of American literature. The book also includes historical context essays, primary document excerpts, and suggested readings.

The Gilded Age Press, 1865-1900

Author : Ted C. Smythe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313052301
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Gilded Age Press, 1865-1900 written by Ted C. Smythe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-08-30 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American newspapers redefined journalism after the Civil War by breaking away from the editorial and financial control of the Democratic and Republican parties. Smythe chronicles the rise of the New Journalism, where pegging newspaper sales to market forces was the cost of editorial independence. Successful papers in post-bellum America thrived by catering to a mass audience, which increased their circulations and raised their advertising revenues. Still active politically, independent editors now sought to influence their readers' opinions themselves rather than serve as conduits for the party line.

Out of the Shadows

Author : Emily Midorikawa
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1640095292
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Out of the Shadows written by Emily Midorikawa and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queen Victoria's reign was an era of breathtaking social change, but it did little to create a platform for women to express themselves. But not so within the social sphere of the séance—a mysterious, lamp-lit world on both sides of the Atlantic, in which women who craved a public voice could hold their own. Out of the Shadows tells the stories of the enterprising women whose supposedly clairvoyant gifts granted them fame, fortune, and most important, influence as they crossed rigid boundaries of gender and class as easily as they passed between the realms of the living and the dead. The Fox sisters inspired some of the era’s best-known political activists and set off a transatlantic séance craze. While in the throes of a trance, Emma Hardinge Britten delivered powerful speeches to crowds of thousands. Victoria Woodhull claimed guidance from the spirit world as she took on the millionaires of Wall Street before becoming America’s first female presidential candidate. And Georgina Weldon narrowly escaped the asylum before becoming a celebrity campaigner against archaic lunacy laws. Drawing on diaries, letters, and rarely seen memoirs and texts, Emily Midorikawa illuminates a radical history of female influence that has been confined to the dark until now.

When the Astors Owned New York

Author : Justin Kaplan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101218819
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book When the Astors Owned New York written by Justin Kaplan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this marvelous anecdotal history, Justin Kaplan––Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Mark Twain––vividly brings to life a glittering, bygone age. Endowed with the largest private fortunes of their day, cousins John Jacob Astor IV and William Waldorf Astor vied for primacy in New York society, producing the grandest hotels ever seen in a marriage of ostentation and efficiency that transformed American social behavior. Kaplan exposes it all in exquisite detail, taking readers from the 1890s to the Roaring Twenties in a combination of biography, history, architectural appreciation, and pure reading pleasure

Mark Twain

Author : Frederick Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136211187
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain written by Frederick Anderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.

Historical Dictionary of the Gilded Age

Author : T. Adams Upchurch
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810862999
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Gilded Age written by T. Adams Upchurch and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-04-13 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gilded Age was an important three-decade period in American history. It was a time of transition, when the United States began to recover from its Civil War and post-war rebuilding phase. It was as a time of progress in technology and industry, of regression in race relations, and of stagnation in politics and foreign affairs. It was a time when poor southerners began farming for a mere share of the crop rather than for wages, when pioneers settled in the harsh land and climate of the Great Plains, and when hopeful prospectors set out in search of riches in the gold fields out West. The Historical Dictionary of the Gilded Age relates the history of the major events, issues, people, and themes of the American "Gilded Age" (1869-1899). This period of unprecedented economic growth and technical advancement is chronicled in this reference and includes a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries.

The Opulent Interiors of the Gilded Age

Author : Arnold Lewis
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486319474
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (863 download)

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Download or read book The Opulent Interiors of the Gilded Age written by Arnold Lewis and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best source of information and illustrations for private houses in Eastern cities during the early 1880s. Rare photographs of mansions belonging to Vanderbilt, Morgan, Grant, and many others. Extensive, informative new text.

God's Man for the Gilded Age

Author : Bruce J. Evensen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0195162447
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book God's Man for the Gilded Age written by Bruce J. Evensen and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At his death on the eve of the 20th century, D.L. Moody was widely recognized as one of the most beloved and important of men in 19th-century America. A Chicago shoe salesman with a fourth grade education, Moody rose from obscurity to become God's man for the Gilded Age. He was the Billy Graham of his day--indeed it could be said that Moody invented the system of evangelism that Graham inherited and perfected. Bruce J. Evensen focuses on the pivotal years during which Moody established his reputation on both sides of the Atlantic through a series of highly popular and publicized campaigns. In four short years Moody forged the bond between revivalism and the mass media that persists to this day. Beginning in Britain in 1873 and extending across America's urban landscape, first in Brooklyn and then in Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, and Boston, Moody used the power of prayer and publicity to stage citywide crusades that became civic spectacles. Modern newspapers, in the grip of economic depression, needed a story to stimulate circulation and found it in Moody's momentous mission. The evangelist and the press used one another in creating a sense of civic excitement that manufactured the largest crowds in municipal history. Critics claimed this machinery of revival was man-made. Moody's view was that he'd rather advertise than preach to empty pews. He brought a businessman's common sense to revival work and became, much against his will, a celebrity evangelist. The press in city after city made him the star of the show and helped transform his religious stage into a communal entertainment of unprecedented proportions. In chronicling Moody's use of the press and their use of him, Evensen sheds new light on a crucial chapter in the history of evangelicalism and demonstrates how popular religion helped form our modern media culture.

Encyclopedia of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Author : John D. Buenker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317471687
Total Pages : 1412 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era written by John D. Buenker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-14 with total page 1412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning the era from the end of Reconstruction (1877) to 1920, the entries of this reference were chosen with attention to the people, events, inventions, political developments, organizations, and other forces that led to significant changes in the U.S. in that era. Seventeen initial stand-alone essays describe as many themes.

Mark Twain: the Critical Heritage

Author : Frederick Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain: the Critical Heritage written by Frederick Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Oxford History of the Novel in English

Author : Priscilla Wald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199909032
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford History of the Novel in English written by Priscilla Wald and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witnessing the end of a war that nearly terminated the nation, the abolition of racial slavery and rise of legal segregation, the rise of Modernism and Hollywood, the closing of the frontier and two World Wars, the literary historical period represented in this volume constitutes the crucible of American literary history. Here, 35 essays by top researchers in the field detail how considerations of race and citizenship; immigration and assimilation; gender and sexuality; nationalism and empire; all reverberate throughout novels written in the United States between 1870 and 1940. Contributors discuss the professionalization of literary production after the Civil War alongside legal and political debates over segregation and citizenship; while chapters on journalism, geography, religion, and immigration offer discussions on everything from the lasting role of literary realism in American fiction to the Spanish-American War's effect on developing theories of aesthetics and popular culture. The volume offers thorough coverage of the emergence of serial fiction, children's fiction, crime and detective fiction, science fiction, and even cinema and comics, as new media and artistic revolutions like the Harlem Renaissance helped usher in the new international aesthetic movement of Modernism. The final chapters in the volume explore the relationship of the novel to the emergence of "American literature" as a category in the academy, in public criticism and journalism, and in mass culture.

The Amusement Park

Author : Stephen M. Silverman
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal
ISBN 13 : 0316416479
Total Pages : 764 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book The Amusement Park written by Stephen M. Silverman and published by Black Dog & Leventhal. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the electrifying, never-before-told true story of amusement parks, from the middle ages to present day, and meet the colorful (and sometimes criminal) characters who are responsible for their enchanting charms. Step right up! The Amusement Park is a rich, anecdotal history that begins nine centuries ago with the "pleasure gardens" of Europe and England and ends with the most elaborate modern parks in the world. It's a history told largely through the stories of the colorful, sometimes hedonistic characters who built them, including: Showmen like Joseph and Nicholas Schenck and Marcus Loew Railroad barons Andrew Mellon and Henry E. Huntington The men who ultimately destroyed the parks, including Robert Moses and Fred Trump Gifted artisans and craft-people who brought the parks to life An amazing cast of supporting players, from Al Capone to Annie Oakley And, of course, this is a full-throttle celebration of the rides, those marvels of engineering and heart-stopping thrills from an author, Stephen Silverman, whose life-long passion for his subject shines through. The parks and fairs featured include the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, Coney Island, Steeplechase Park, Dreamland, Euclid Beach Park, Cedar Point, Palisades Park, Ferrari World, Dollywood, Sea World, Six Flags Great Adventure, Universal Studios, Disney World and Disneyland, and many more.