| Description | A collection of short biographies of women who made a contribution to the making of New York City, United States of America. Many are famous, but others led quieter, private lives, but were just as influential. The research included interviews with people who stuied specific aspects of the City's history (like musical theater, law enforcement, and education), social justice movements (like immigration, labor, abolitionism, suffrage, and LGBTQ concerns), groups that represented varous professions, organizations deoted to individual ethnic groups, museums, architects and city planners and zoning specialists. .Themes in the book are: settlers, revolutionaries, caretakers, builders, liberators, poets, Statue of Liberty, advocates, Wall Street, benefactors, funders, ambassadors, Madison Avenue, actrices, lesbian women, madams, news makers, Harlem renaissance, crooks, authorities, actrices, editors, style setters, artists, soundtrack to the ciry, mythmakers, icons, educators, politicians, preservationists, counterculturists, intellects, loudmouths, nightclub owners, grocers, restaurateurs, tastemakers, immigrants, ushers, entertainers, writers. With quotes and illustrations. |
