In 1945, New York City stood at the pinnacle of its cultural and economic power.
Her many books include Hong Kong: Epilogue to an Empire , The Venetian Empire: A Sea Voyage , Conundrum , and Among the Cities ..
About the Author: Jan Morris is a travel writer and historian.
Taking into account both Social Register and slum, Manhattan \'45 celebrates New York\'s Golden Age as a place where, for one unrepeatable moment in history, anything seemed possible.
And she tours the tenements of Hell\'s Kitchen and the Gashouse district, as well as the Foundling Hospital where the crushing realities of poverty belie the unchallenged exuberance of the age.
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She meets Fiorello La Guardia, Robert Moses, Leo Durocher, I.
She dines at Schrafft\'s and Le Pavillon, drinks ale at McSorley\'s Saloon, sips Manhattans at the Manhattan Club, and spots celebrities at El Morocco.
She rides the trollies, the El, the Hudson River ferries, and the Twentieth Century Limited.
Morris visits Wall Street, Harlem, Greenwich Village, Chinatown, and the Lower East Side.
From its beguilingly idiosyncratic architectural style to its unmistakable slang, post-War New York springs to life through Morris\'s brisk, affectionate prose.
In Manhattan \'45 , acclaimed travel writer and historian Jan Morris evokes the city in all its romantic grandeur.
Never again would the city possess the unique mixture of innocence and sophistication, romance and formality, generosity and confidence which characterized it in this moment of triumph.
In 1945, New York City stood at the pinnacle of its cultural and economic power
