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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewRemarkable history-superb in research, insight, and interpretation... The book is full of fascinations. New Yorker A model of cultural history... [Bender] makes his case for New York with the conviction that he knows what is genuinely distinctive and valuable in the life of a great city and that his view of the matter is not only true to the reality of its history but important to those who hold democratic ideals. New York Times Book Review
Table of ContentsCover
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Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Acknowledgments
Preface
Prologue: New York City and the Condition of Intellect
Part I: Civic Culture
Chapter 1. The Emergence of City
Chapter 2. Patricians and Artisans
Chapter 3. A University of the City
Part II: Literary Culture
Chapter 4. Toward a Metropolitan Sensibility
Chapter 5. The Metropolitan Gentry: Culture Against Politics
Chapter 6. The Modern Literary Intellectual
Part III: Academic Culture
Chapter 7. A Metropolitan University
Chapter 8. Professors as Intellectuals
Part IV: An International Capital of Culture
Chapter 9. Refiguration
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