Imperial City - The Rise and Rise of New York

`New York, New York - a wonderful town' ran the lyric from the musical `On the Town.' Geoffrey Moorhouse thinks so too. He has been visiting New York for more than twenty years. He sees it as a city of contradictions. That the rich get richer and the poor scrabble for an existence is as true today as it has been through much of the city's history. And, as with his classic on the great city, Calcutta, it is the history that Moorhouse deftly mixes with his own experience...