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Lecturing on the city that he wrote about. In the very place in the city that you wrote about midtown manhattan. A couple of preliminaries before we roll into this illustrated talk. I like that better than powerpoint, as a term. Im not good at powerpoint. Its not that im a luddite, im just a technological idiot. This is not the book i originally set out to right. The original idea was to do the whole city. All five boroughs, and stretch it out from world war i to world war ii. Without trying to be too cute, i took to bigger bite out of the apple. I discovered, as i was doing my research, that i was really drawn to a really compelling story within the larger story i had intended to tell. It is an untold story, actually. It has been told in bits and pieces. But it has never been stitched together as a compelling historical narrative. That sudden and spectacular rise of midtown manhattan in the 1920s. It was an urban backwater before 1919. There wasnt a single skies group are above 42nd s
Can you guys hear me in the back . Can you hear me now . No . Yes . I will speak loudly. It is great to be in the city, lecturing on the city that he wrote about. In the very place in the city that you wrote about midtown manhattan. A couple of preliminaries before we roll into this illustrated talk. I like that better than powerpoint, as a term. Im not good at powerpoint. Its not that im a luddite, im just a technological idiot. This is not the book i originally set out to right. The original idea was to do the whole city. All five boroughs, and stretch it out from world war i to world war ii. Without trying to be too cute, i took to bigger bite out of the apple. I discovered, as i was doing my research, that i was really drawn to a really compelling story within the larger story i had intended to tell. It is an untold story, actually. It has been told in bits and pieces. But it has never been stitched together as a compelling historical narrative. That story is the rise the sudden an
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The publisher has gone through a lot of changes since its founding in 1924. Its current chief executive, Jonathan Karp, talks about the company’s history and its hopes for the future.