![]() Sara Astruc, an online diarist, left New York after Sept. “The old General has passed through many a dark struggle without flinching, and it is not to be supposed that he will flinch now when our very liberty is at stake.” (A similar crisis some 140 years later prompted the New York Daily News’ immortal headline, “Ford to City: Drop Dead.”) “A fearfull struggle is going on between the Government and New York,” noted Cruickshank. ![]() James Cruikshank, a New York merchant, reflected on the financial crisis that engulfed the city in 1834 and President Andrew Jackson’s refusal to come to the city’s aid. The city’s lesser-known lights are also represented. By turns gossipy and boozy, astonishing and enlightening, New York Diaries is a fascinating and essential read for anyone enamored with the minutiae of Gotham’s famous denizens. The book begins on January 1 and takes us day by day through the year, with excerpts from the journals of luminaries including Camus, Coward, Edison, Ginsberg, O’Neill, Poe, Twain, Whitman and many more. Here you will discover the private thoughts of some of the most famous and not so famous people who populated the streets of the city so great they named it twice. We relish connecting with 400 years of emotions, raw and unedited, that are presciently similar to our own. There is a diarist in all of us, and the beauty of New York Diaries, edited by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times best-selling author Teresa Carpenter, is its universality. ![]() And, on a far more poignant occasion, Theodore Roosevelt wrote in his diary, “The light has gone out of my life,” upon the deaths, on the same day, of his wife and mother. George Washington ruminated on the many visitors who came calling on his wife, Martha. Edited by Teresa CarpenterĪndy Warhol was too pooped to party and decided to dye his eyebrows instead. BOOK REVIEW | New York Diaries: 1609-2009.
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