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

by Max Page (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2010

  $49.05

  From 19th-century paintings of fires raging through New York to scenes of Manhattan engulfed by a gigantic wave in the movie Deep Impact , images of the city's end have been diverse. This book investigates 2 centuries of imagined cataclysms visited upon New York, and offers a perspective to our understanding of the events of September 11, 2001.