This is an interesting survey of a critical era in New York history, when Greenwich Village emerged as the focus of modernism, and the city came to dominate the emerging culture of the twentieth century. Unfortunately, it is also quite repetitive, and often unnecessarily verbose. I found the chapters on the era in Mike Wallace's "Greater Gotham" clearer, more pointed, and better at placing cultural modernism in a socio-economic context. ( )

My 25th or 28th book on New York City at the turn of the 20th Century. We might never return to these progressive and exciting days. The chapters about the women of this cultrual era are especially compelling. ( )