 | The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.65 The Chicago Worlds' Fair of 1893 was a memorial to American ingenuity: and the scene of unimaginable horrors.
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 | Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software by Steven Johnson
Buy new: $11.21 / Used from: $4.39 |
 | Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City by Jed Horne
Buy used from: $1.09 Jed Horne was managing editor of the New Orleans Times-Picayune when the city went underwater.
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 | The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast by Douglas Brinkley
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $0.59 Detailed, thorough history of the great deluge by a Tulane University Professor who lived through it.
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 | Why New Orleans Matters by Tom Piazza
Buy new: $11.96 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $0.06 Pulitzer Prize winning history of the court-ordered desegregation of Boston's public schools, and the racial and social unrest that followed.
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 | The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America by Russell Shorto
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $6.15 The overlooked contribution of the Dutch to the Colonial experience of the United States.
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 | Unearthing Gotham: The Archaeology of New York City by Anne-Marie Cantwell
Buy new: $15.00 / Used from: $7.29 |
 | Building Gotham: Civic Culture and Public Policy in New York City, 1898--1938 by Keith D. Revell
Buy new: $28.00 / Used from: $18.05 |
 | The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $7.40 Noted LBJ biographer withe the life of one of the major movers and shakers of New York City.
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 | The Encyclopedia of New York City
Buy new: $47.25 / Used from: $21.67 |
 | New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan by Jill Lepore
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $4.61 Well-told account of a little known episode in New York history.
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 | The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough
Buy new: $12.96 / Used from: $2.56 David McCullough examines the extraordinary story of the Roeblings and their quest to bridge the East River. truly an outstanding book.It's also a biogography of the Roeblings...father and son...who built the bridge.
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 | The World's Columbian Exposition: The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 by Norman Bolotin
Buy new: $13.10 / Used from: $10.00 The Great Colombian Exposition and its aftermath.The original"Theme Park.
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 | The Chicago Worlds Fair of 1893: A Photographic Record (Dover Architectural Series)
Buy new: $9.32 / Used from: $6.43 |
 | City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America by Donald L. Miller
Buy new: $14.78 / Used from: $4.98 |
 | Chicago: Growth of a Metropolis by Harold M. Mayer
Buy new: $26.40 / Used from: $7.99 |
 | Chicago In and Around the Loop : Walking Tours of Architecture and History by Gerard R. Wolfe
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $12.49 |
 | L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.92 Corruptiom and Greed in 1950's Los Angeles.
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 | The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
Buy new: $17.79 / Used from: $2.40 The story of the Cholera epidemic of 1846__and the search for its source: a contaminated water fountain.
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 | A Tale of Two Cities: 150th Anniversary (Signet Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: $4.95 / Used from: $1.75 Naturally!
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 | City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London (Women in Culture and Society Series) by Judith R. Walkowitz
Buy new: $15.12 / Used from: $8.85 |
 | The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump: John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera by Sandra Hempel
Buy new: $18.21 / Used from: $8.69 The cholera epidemic of 1846 and its aftermath.
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 | Boston's South End (MA) (Then & Now) by Anthony Mitchell Sammarco
Buy new: $17.15 / Used from: $12.39 Southie...south Boston.
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 | The Hub: Boston Past and Present by Thomas H. O'Connor
Buy used from: $7.81 Boston: the Paris of America. Home of Emerson, Hawthorne,the Kennedys and Tip O'Neill. Educational mecca (Harvard, MIT, Vassar). Great town for eating and drinking.
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 | London: A Social History (A "New York Times" notable book 1995) by Roy Porter
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $3.67 |
 | A History of New York (Columbia History of Urban Life) by François Weil
Buy new: $73.50 / Used from: $3.19 Well done compendium to New York City by my alma mater, Columbia University.
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 | An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 (Newbery Honor Book) by Jim Murphy
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $2.90 Yellow fever almost wiped out Memphis in the 19th century.
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 | First City: Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory (Early American Studies) by Gary B. Nash
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $15.00 Philadelphia gets no respect. Sure, it has the Liberty Bell and Ben Franklin, but it was the cradle of the Constitution. It's like Israel:
"Who Knew?"
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 | Philadelphia: An American Paris by Joseph L. Borkson
Buy used from: $13.00 |
 | The First Wall Street: Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, and the Birth of American Finance by Robert E. Wright
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $10.78 |
 | Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $4.58 |
 | Imperial Istanbul: A Traveller's Guide: Includes Iznik, Bursa and Edirne by Jane Taylor
Buy new: $14.00 / Used from: $10.00 Byzantium; Constantinople, Istanbul.
What a story!
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 | How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. Riis
Buy new: $9.34 / Used from: $4.75 Early sociological work on the tenements of Hell's Kitchen in New York City.
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 | Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $3.05 The author of "Animal Farm" and "1984" during a down time.
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 | Fin-De-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture by Carl E. Schorske
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $7.22 |
 | A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889 by Frederic Morton
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Prague: A Cultural and Literary History (Cities of the Imagination) by Richard D. E. Burton
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $7.00 |
 | London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
Buy new: $14.28 / Used from: $5.97 |
 | Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $5.13 |
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