With more than three million foreign-born residents today, New York has been America's defining port of entry for nearly four centuries, a magnet for transplants from all over the globe. These migrants have brought their hundreds of languages and distinct cultures to the city, and from there to the entire country. More immigrants have come to j New York than all other entry points combined. City of Dreams is peopled with memorable characters both beloved and unfamiliar, whose lives unfold in rich detail the young man from ...
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With more than three million foreign-born residents today, New York has been America's defining port of entry for nearly four centuries, a magnet for transplants from all over the globe. These migrants have brought their hundreds of languages and distinct cultures to the city, and from there to the entire country. More immigrants have come to j New York than all other entry points combined. City of Dreams is peopled with memorable characters both beloved and unfamiliar, whose lives unfold in rich detail the young man from the Caribbean who passed through New York on his way to becoming a Founding Father; the ten-year-old Angelo Siciliano, from Calabria, who transformed into Charles Atlas, bodybuilder; Dominican-born Oscar de la Renta, whose couture designs have dressed first ladies from Jackie Kennedy to Michelle Obama. Tyler Anbinder's story is one of innovators and artists, revolutionaries and i rioters, staggering deprivation and soaring triumphs, all playing out against the powerful backdrop of New York City, at once ever-changing and profoundly, permanently itself. City of Dreams provides a vivid sense of what New York looked like, sounded like, smelled like, and felt like over the centuries of its development and maturation into the city we know today.
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As a child I learned to read and my fathers kenneth roberts collection was on our shelf. His novels transported me to places that were startling yet realistic. As natives
of Maine since before the revolution, Mr Roberts novels anchored us in place and time.
When I found "city of dreams" in 2016, the sturm and drang of contemporary
politics receded and I was able to travel in time to a place I had lived in personally
and walked and read its history in its libraries. The fantastic ability of this author
to conjure these scenarios that ooze authenticity. I am writing in retrospect as I
read this book four years ago but as we are about to enter a plague time the world
over, Tyler Anbinders elucidation of the young immigrant barber/doctors ability
to save the life of peter stuyvesant by performing surgery that was unimagined in
most of his contemporarys knowledge base. The protagonist was also skilled in the
art of creating vaccinations to prevent smallpox. This is the wrinkle that has stayed in my mind these years as we enter a period where survival of the species may depend on these skills. I will reread in the next few weeks. What a book CAWentworth
