Goodreads helps you follow your favorite authors. Be the first to learn about new releases!
Start by following Tyler Anbinder.
Showing 1-9 of 9
“Dickens’s visit to Five Points made it fashionable for well-to-do New Yorkers to go “slumming,” visiting Five Points as Dickens had done, with a police escort, to marvel at its poverty and gawk at its displays of vice. Indeed, the term “slumming” may have been coined there to describe such tours.”
― Five Points: The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood
― Five Points: The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood
“Every American must feel a thrill of pride and gratitude in the thought that his country is the refuge of the oppressed, . . . and however wretched be the material offered to him from the refuse of other nations, he accepts it with generous hospitality.”
― City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York
― City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York
“How the Other Half Lives”
― Five Points: The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood
― Five Points: The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood
“Those who make their patriotism a vehicle for intolerance are very dangerous.”
― City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York
― City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York
“do you not realize that the State is the worst enemy you have? It is a machine that crushes you in order to sustain the ruling class, your masters . . . Wake up . . . Become daring enough to demand your rights”
― City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York
― City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York
“watering holes had been packed for hours, with revelers throwing back shots of whiskey, hot toddies, and eggnog as they prepared to brave the cold for the traditional outdoor countdown. It seemed as if every city resident, young and old,”
― City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York
― City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York
“Americans in the first quarter of the twentieth century became convinced that Reed was right—that the new immigrants were demonstrably inferior to those from previous generations and that the new wave of immigration, if left unchecked, would dilute the nation’s Anglo-Saxon bloodlines and leave the United States a poorer, weaker, less “American” nation.”
― City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York
― City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York
“Dead Rabbit” became the standard phrase by which city residents described any scandalously riotous individual or group. But there seems to be no justification for referring to the Bowery Boys’ adversaries by this name.32”
― Five Points: The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood
― Five Points: The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood
“The United States, he wrote in 1811, was “a land of peace and plenty, . . . the garden spot of the world; a happy asylum for the banished children of oppression.”
― City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York
― City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York