The brazen age: New York City and the American empire : politics, art, and bohemia

The last hurrah of Franklin D. Roosevelt

Empire and communications. City lights ; Cultural capital ; The greater City ; Babylon revisited ; Wandering rocks

City of refuge. Exiles and émigrés ; The City at war

Words, words, words. Books are bullets ; New York discovers America ; Limousines on Grub Street ; Scenes of writing

That winter

and the next. A fractious peace ; New York observed ; Soldier's Home

The City in black and white. Berenice Abbott's village in the city ; Gottscho's Oz ; Weegee's dark carnival

Greenwich Village : ghosts, goths, and glimpses of the moon. Bohemia was yesterday ; Conciliating nobody: The masses and the villagers ; Brightness fall ; Another part of the forest ; Culture and anarchy : "The sublime is now"

1948 : the end of something. Verdict ; Conference at the Waldorf

Days without end.