Supreme City - by Donald L Miller (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>"<i>Supreme City</i> captures a vanished Gotham in all its bustle, gristle, and glory" (<i>Vanity Fair</i>). In the 1920s midtown Manhattan became the center of New York City, and the cultural and commercial capital of America. This is the story of the people who made it happen.</b> <p/>In just four words--"the capital of everything"--Duke Ellington captured Manhattan during one of the most exciting and celebrated eras in our history: the Jazz Age. <i>Supreme City </i>is the story of Manhattan's growth and transformation in the 1920s and the brilliant people behind it. Nearly all of the makers of modern Manhattan came from elsewhere: Walter Chrysler from the Kansas prairie; entertainment entrepreneur Florenz Ziegfeld from Chicago. William Paley, founder of the CBS radio network, was from Philadelphia, while his rival David Sarnoff, founder of NBC, was a Russian immigrant. Cosmetics queen Elizabeth Arden was Canadian and her rival, Helena Rubinstein, Polish. All of them had in common vaulting ambition and a desire to fulfill their dreams in New York. As mass communication emerged, the city moved from downtown to midtown through a series of engineering triumphs--Grand Central Terminal and the new and newly chic Park Avenue it created, the Holland Tunnel, and the modern skyscraper. In less than ten years Manhattan became the social, cultural, and commercial hub of the country. The 1920s was the Age of Jazz--and the Age of Ambition. <p/>Transporting, deeply researched, and utterly fascinating, <i>Supreme City</i> "elegantly introduces one vivid character after another to re-create a vital and archetypical era...A triumph" (<i>The New York Times</i>).<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"An award-winning historian surveys the astonishing cast of characters who helped turn Manhattan into the world capital of commerce, communication and entertainment. . . . The narrative bursts with a dizzying succession of tales about the politicos, impresarios, merchants, sportsmen, performers, gangsters and hustlers who accounted for an unprecedented burst of creativity and achievement. . . . A scholarly . . . social history but one with plenty of sex appeal."----Kirkus Reviews (starred review, one of the Best History Books of the Year)<br><br>"Donald L. Miller has long been one of my favorite historians. Anyone who reads <i>Supreme City </i>will understand why. Miller brilliantly examines the birth of Midtown Manhattan during the glorious Jazz Age. It's the story of how a gaggle of success-hungry out-of-towners--including Duke Ellington, Walter Chrysler, E. B. White, and William Paley--turned the Valley of Giant Skyscrapers near Grand Central Terminal into <i>the</i> symbolic epicenter of wealth, power, and American can-doism. Highly recommended!"--Douglas Brinkley, Professor of History, Rice University and author of Cronkite<br><br>"Lower Manhattan dominated New York for three hundred years. In the 1920's, however, as Donald L. Miller makes clear in a page-turning book with an astonishing cast of characters, Midtown became the beating heart of the metropolis. Supreme City is about how these few square miles at the center of a small island gave birth to modern America. If you love Gotham, you will love this book."--Kenneth T. Jackson, Barzun Professor of History, Columbia University; Editor-in-Chief, The Encyclopedia of New York City<br><br>"Miller captures the heady excitement and enduring creativity of 1920s Manhattan. . . . Conveying the panoramic sweep of the era with wit, illuminating details, humor, and style, Miller illustrates how Midtown Manhattan became the nation's communications, entertainment, and commercial epicenter."-- "Publishers Weekly (starred review)"<br><br>"<i>Supreme City</i> captures a vanished Gotham in all its bustle, gristle, and glory."--David Friend "Vanity Fair"<br><br>"A splendid account of the construction boom in Midtown Manhattan between World War I and the Great Depression, and the transformation of transportation, communications, publishing, sports, and fashion that accompanied it. . . . [Miller is] a virtuosic storyteller."--Glenn C. Altschuler "The Philadelphia Inquirer"<br><br>"Donald L. Miller's latest triumph. . . . [he] elegantly introduces one vivid character after another to recreate a vital and archetypical era when, as Duke Ellington declared, the whole world revolved around New York."--Sam Roberts "The New York Times"<br><br>"Lively . . . synthesizes a vast amount of material on everything from skyscrapers to showgirls to create a scintillating portrait of Manhattan in the '20s. . . . Much of <i>Supreme City</i>'s charm comes from the amiable way Donald Miller ambles through Jazz Age Manhattan, exploring any corner of it that strikes his fancy."--Wendy Smith "The Daily Beast"<br><br>"Sweeping. . . . Enjoyable. . . . [In the 1920s] New York was the United States intensified, an electric vessel into which the hopes and desires of a nation were distilled. As Mr. Miller's vivid and exhaustive chronicle demonstrates, Jazz Age Manhattan was the progenitor of cultural movements--individualized fusions of art and commerce--that came to symbolize the American way of life."--David Freeland "The Wall Street Journal"<br><br><i>"Supreme City</i> sings with all the excitement and the brilliance of the Jazz Age it recounts. Donald Miller is one of America's most fervent and insightful writers about the urban experience; here he gives us New York City at its grandest and most optimistic."--Kevin Baker, author of The Big Crowd<br><br>"A great skyscraper of a book. <i>Supreme City </i>is the improbable story not just of America's greatest metropolis during the Jazz Age, but the biography of an epoch."--Rick Atkinson, author of The Guns at Last Light: The War in Europe, 1944-1945<br>
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