New York is a city like no other.
Starting on January 1 and continuing day by day throu.
Pulitzer Prize winner Teresa Carpenter, a lifelong diary enthusiast, scoured the archives of libraries, historical societies, and private estates to assemble here an almost holographic view of this iconic metropolis.
Through the centuries, she\'s been embraced and reviled, worshipped and feared, praised and battered--all the while standing at the crossroads of American politics, business, society, and culture.
New York is a city like no other