EMPIRE STATE EDITIONS
New York, New York *(the city so nice they named it twice)
Books in the Empire State Editions highlight the beauty, culture, diversity, and history of New York and the never-ending thirst for information about this global metropolis such as:
Boss of Black Brooklyn
America's Last Great Newspaper War
Eunice Hunton Carter
The Kingdom Began in Puerto Rico
Notable New Yorkers of Manhattan's Upper West Side
NEW THIS FALL
A major reassessment of New York City’s first Black mayor and the fragile coalition politics that reshaped urban America.
“The definitive history of the David Dinkins era in New York City politics and a major contribution to the history of late 20th century American liberalism. Few studies of urban conflict and change possess A Fragile Alliance’s fairness, insight, depth, and humanity.”
—Jerald Podair, Professor of History, Lawrence University
“With its penetrating and nuanced account of the Dinkins mayoralty in the twilight of liberalism, A Fragile Alliance makes a genuine contribution to the vast scholarship on New York City. It is required reading not only for students of New York City politics but also for those interested in the perils and possibilities of identity politics and the limits of urban liberalism.”
—Timothy Weaver, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany, SUNY
“This important analysis describes the fracturing of the Democratic Party during Mayor Dinkins's single term in office. James J. Barney relies on newly available sources to reveal how race, class, sexuality, and ideological tensions reshaped the electoral landscape. A must read to understand New York City today.”
—Martha Biondi, author of To Stand and Fight: the Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City and The Black Revolution on Campus
A visual chronicle of New York’s underground press and the photographers who captured a city in revolt, reinvention, and creative bloom
“Voice photographers . . . believed in the urgency of the image, and I don’t think one of them. . . thought their pictures were lesser than language. Part of what made the Voice such a remarkable enterprise was the remarkable synthesis that existed on the page—a synthesis of words and pictures that not only made the Voice graphically strong, but set a model for what a politically and aesthetically unique document could look like, feel like.”
—Hilton Als
Praise for Empire State Editions
“In presenting lively...case studies of what he regards as the most important unbuilt lines, Mr. Raskin encourages his readers to think about the adaptable nature of the city.”—Wall Street Journal
"Pamela Hanlon in her new book about the UN and New York City's evolving relationship. . . gives the sweeping developments surrounding the UN a particular locality and tells the story of postwar internationalism in a readable, human way."
—The Nation
“. . . Thanks to Campo's unbiased writing, this is a great book of what the city used to be.”
—Ink New York
"Minutely detailed. . . a 'case study' of the promises and drawbacks of pluralism.”—The New York Times Book Review
“In 'Walking New York', essayist Stephen Miller takes a look at the city's literary perambulators, examining the writing of Stephen Crane, Alfred Kazin and Teju Cole, among others, and offering an evolving portrait of New York through the centuries. 'Each Writer' Mr. Miller says in the book's preface, 'wanders a different city'.”
—The New York Observer