The Catskills: Its History and How It Changed America Tapa dura - 2015

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Knopf, 2015-10-27. Hardcover. Used: Good.

NY: Knopf, 2015. 1st. Hardcover. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Stephen Silverman and Raphael Silver tell of the turning points that made the Catskills so vital to the development of America: Henry Hudson’s first spotting the distant blue mountains in 1609; the New York State constitutional convention, resulting in New York’s own Declaration of Independence from Great Britain and its own constitution, causing the ire of the invading British army . . . the Catskills as a popular attraction in the 1800s, with the construction of the Catskill Mountain House and its rugged imitators that offered WASP guests “one-hundred percent restricted” accommodations (“Hebrews will knock vainly for admission”), a policy that remained until the Catskills became the curative for tubercular patients, sending real-estate prices plummeting and the WASP enclave on to richer pastures. Here are the gangsters (Jack “Legs” Diamond and Dutch Schultz, among them) who sought refuge in the Catskill… Leer más

Knopf, 2015-10-27. Hardcover. Like New.

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Knopf, 2015-10-27. Hardcover. New.

2015 Knopf first edition.
Conditions of the book and dust jacket are Near Fine, with no significant condition issues.
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New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good/Very Good. 2015. First Edition. Hardcover w/DJ. Sm 4to., 449 pp., Remainder mark .

The Catskills ("Cat Creek" in Dutch), America's original frontier, northwest of New York City, with its seven hundred thousand acres of forest land preserve and its five counties—Delaware, Greene, Sullivan, Ulster, Schoharie; America's first great vacationland; the subject of the nineteenth-century Hudson River School paintings that captured the almost godlike majesty of the mountains and landscapes, the skies, waterfalls, pastures, cliffs . . . refuge and home to poets and gangsters, tycoons and politicians, preachers and outlaws, musicians and spiritualists, outcasts and rebels . . . Stephen Silverman and Raphael Silver tell of the turning points that made the Catskills so vital to the development of America: Henry Hudson's first spotting the distant blue mountains in 1609; the New York State constitutional convention, resulting in New York's own Declaration of Independence from Great Britain and its own constitution, causing the ire of the invading British army . . . the Catskills… Leer más

Knopf, 2015-10-26. hardcover. Good. 7x1x9. Dust jacket has edge bumping and light wear. Unmarked, pages clean & bright. Ships Next Business Day.