To: nopardons
I do need to read up. Right now I'm reading Kitchen Confidential (vulgar but good), Bias (McGowan's book is much better), and Fortunes, Fiddles, and Fried Chicken (a post-bellum history of Nashville Gentry....pretty entertaining since I know a fair number of the descendents).
35 posted on
01/14/2003 11:00:16 PM PST by
wardaddy
(sometimes....I admit it....I miss Manhattan....in the rain with my apt. or loft windows open)
To: wardaddy; nopardons
For a good history of "street" life in New York from the 1790s to the 1910s, check out Luc Sante's outstanding book Low Life when you get the chance.
38 posted on
01/14/2003 11:09:59 PM PST by
Clemenza
(East Side, West Side, all over town. Tripping the light fantastic on the sidewalks of New York!)
To: wardaddy
I'm trying to get out of London/England in the 18th century. That's what I've been reading lately and I'm sick of it ! If there was ever a time period, that I would
NEVER want to live through, this one is VERY high on my list. A few of the books I've been reading are : " A CONSPIRACY OF PAPER "," CARABOO "," LONDON HANGED ", " THIEVES' OPERA ", and just finished " JOHNSON'S LONDON ". They're all fascinating, full of hard , cold facts ( though the first two are fiction, based on historical facts ), and well worth the read. Anyone, who thinks that 18th century America ( or any other place at that time period ) was a good time to live, doesn't know much, if anything at all, about what life was
REALLY ,?B> like back then. What's " KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL " about ?
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