'Greater Gotham' Is A Great Big Book For A Great Big City
The second volume in Mike Wallace's Pulitzer-winning history of New York City weighs in at over six pounds — and every ounce is packed with fascinating detail about the city that never sleeps.
Like Russia, New York City inspires big, doorstop-size books, epitomized by the six-volume by I.N. Phelps Stokes (published between 1915 and 1928, weighing in at 35 pounds). The picture swims into clearer focus when we realize that Gotham, the brand-name-style moniker employed by Mike Wallace for , his follow-up to the Pulitzer winning (written with Edwin G. Burrows), is in English folklore a town — originally "Goat Town"
