Scenes from the Life of a City: Corruption and Conscience in Old New York
Eric Homberger. Yale University Press, $36 (368pp) ISBN 978-0-300-06882-5
This study of life in mid-19th-century New York City examines how a sense of community was increasingly weakened by issues such as poverty and political corruption. (Oct.)
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Reviewed on: 10/28/1996
Genre: Nonfiction
Hardcover - 358 pages - 978-0-300-06041-6
