City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York's Destruction

by Max Page

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Long before 9/11, visions of the destruction of New York City were a part of America's collective imagination

From nineteenth-century paintings of fires raging through New York City to scenes of Manhattan engulfed by a gigantic wave in the 1998 movie Deep Impact, images of the city's end have been prolific and diverse. Why have Americans repeatedly imagined New York's destruction? What do the fantasies of annihilation played...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0300164467

ISBN13:9780300164466

Release Date:July 2010

Publisher:Yale University Press

Length:280 Pages

Weight:1.30 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.6" x 9.6"

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