The knights, knaves, billionaires, and beauties in the city of big shotstwenty-one years, 1987-2008Jacobs, Alexandra(Editor)Kaplan, Peter W.Stevenson, Peter M.Blitt, Barry.textAnecdotes.History.Sources.nyuNew YorkHarperc200920091st ed.monographicengspa

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368 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.The Kingdom of New York is rollicking insider;s history of contemporary New York, as seen through the lens of the city’s most irreverent newspaper, the New York Observer. Handsomely designed with great drawings, cartoons, and other illustrations throughout and filled with the paper’s unique attention to politics, status, and wealth, this unique insider’s view features essays by Cynthia Ozick, Gay Talese, Woody Allen, and Martin Scorsese, and covers such iconic New York personalities as Bill and Hillary Clinton, Rudy Giuliani, Michael Bloomberg, Graydon Carter, Katie Couric, Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer, Tina Fey, J. Lo, Seinfeld, Tina Brown, and Anderson Cooper.as seen by The New York observer ; introduction by Peter W. Kaplan ; [editors: Alexandra Jacobs, Peter W. Kaplan, Peter M. Stevenson ; illustrators, Barry Blitt ... [et al.]].At head of title: New York Observer presents.Selection of articles covering years 1987-2008.Includes index.n-us-ny Since 1951 fast New York (N.Y.)History1951-AnecdotesNew York (N.Y.)History1951-SourcesNew York (State)New YorkNueva York (N.Y.)Historia1951Nueva York (Estados Unidos)002 F 128.55 K54 2009974.7/104497800616954070061695408http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1409/2013388391-b.htmlhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1409/2013388391-b.htmlBTCTA19091020230411090140.0spa