Rutherfurd celebrates America's greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga that
showcases his extraordinary ability to combine impeccable historical research
and storytelling flair. As in his earlier, bestselling novels, he illuminates
cultural, social, and political upheavals through the lives of a remarkably
diverse set of families.

As he recounts the intertwining fates of characters rich and poor, black and
white, native born and immigrant, Rutherfurd brings to life the momentous
events that shaped New York and America: the Revolutionary War, the emergence
of the city as a great trading and financial center, the excesses of the Gilded
Age, the explosion of immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries, the trials of World War II, the near-demise of New York in the 1970s
and its roaring rebirth in the '90s, and the attacks on the World Trade Center.
Sprinkled throughout are captivating cameo appearances by historical figures
ranging from George Washington to Abraham Lincoln to Babe Ruth.

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