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Beverly Swerling's critically acclaimed epic saga continues as New York emerges from the Civil War into the Gilded Age - a city marked by soaring expansion and teeming with unbridled ambition and dazzling glamour. It is 1864. The South's surrender is inevitable, and Manhattan is at the heart of the recovering nation's surge to prosperity. On its bustling streets crowds hustle from place to place amid a maelstrom of carriages and horse-drawn trolleys. Vanderbilt's new Grand Central Depot and the glittering Ladies' Mile shine as beacons of the city's burgeoning wealth. Joshua Turner returns home from the War with only one leg, but his ambition intact, and sees opportunity in the exponential growth of vital city workers - the managers and clerks who churn New York's economic life. This new middle class must live in dreary 'family residences,' where everyone eats in a shared dining room and no woman can have a key to her own front door. Manhattan, Joshua realizes, has limited land but unlimited air. He aspires to build the city's first apartment houses for everyman, a daring vision that will make him New York's first true real estate titan but will also attract the dangerous attention

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Author

Swerling, Beverly

Publisher

Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781439136942

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, History

Rating

3.97 / 5 (496 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13