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Donald millers recently published supreme city provides a new and welcome approach to urban history

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Miller has once again as he did with chicago in the city of the century produced a significant history that is eminently readable and a mustread for anyone curious about the iconic city that has so defined urban america

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A serious history book by an outstanding urban historian that reads like a best selling novel

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Between 1920 and 1930 new york city experienced a revolutionary transformation in the worlds of business politics entertainment sports transportation and the rest of america would be soon to follow

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I understand that supreme city was envisioned as the second in an american city trilogy which began city of the century about chicago in the 1890s and is supposed to conclude with a book about los angeles in the 1950s

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An analogous situation occurred in early 20th century new york city where the new york central railroad and the pennsylvania railroad built major terminals in midmanhattan grand central terminal at 42nd street and pennsylvania station at 34th street

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The construction of the two new terminals in what until then had been considered new york citys traditional uptown soon transformed the area into a second completely new central business district midtown manhattan

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It became the entertainment and communications center of new york and america and a business district that rivaled wall street in power and consequence