Steven Gaines
Narrator : Steven Gaines
Published By : Hachette Audio
Runtime : 6 hours
Type : American Social & Economic
Our Price : $29.98 $20.99
Steven Gaines takes us from New York's most expensive condominiums and co-ops to the offices of its most powerful real estate brokers to reveal the outlandish displays of ego, bad behavior, and status hunger that come into play when the best addresses in the city are on the line.
With his signature elan, Gaines weaves a gossipy tapestry of brokers, buyers, co-op boards, and eccentric landlords and tells of the apartment hunting and renovating adventures of many celebrities - from Tommy Hilfiger to Donna Karan, from Jerry Seinfeld to Steven Spielberg, from Barbra Streisand to Madonna.
Here, too, is a fascinating chronicle of the changes in Manhattan's residential skyline, from the slums of the nineteenth century to the advent of the luxury building. Gaines describes how living in boxes stacked on boxes came to be seen as the ultimate in status, and how the co-operative apartment, originally conceived as a form of housing for the poor, came to be used as a legal means of blackballing undesirable neighbors.
A social history told through brick and mortar, The Sky's the Limit is the ultimate look inside one of the most exclusive and expensive enclaves in the world, and at the lengths to which people will go to get in.
Other titles you may be interested in
Jerry Robbins
Narrator : Full Cast Production
Published By : Colonial Radio Theatre On The Air
Runtime : 45 minutes
Type : American Audio Theater Drama American
Our Price : $5.95
The true, but little known story of Red Clouds War, along the Bozeman Trail in Montana in 1868 More info...
|
Abraham Lincoln
Narrator : George Vafiadis
Published By : In Audio
Runtime : 2 hours 50 minutes
Type : Royalty and Heads of State American Pre 1900 Biographical
Our Price : $19.95
Speeches, Essays and other writings including 'The Gettysburg Address' and 'The Second Inaugural Address'. More info...
|
Mary Rowlandson
Narrator : Carrington MacDuffie
Published By : In Audio
Runtime : 2 hours 20 minutes
Type : American Pre 1900 Biographical Autobiography
Our Price : $16.95 $12.50
This marvelous reading of Mary Rownlandson's account of the Narragansett Indian siege, descriptive and mindful of the will of God, this is a very powerful audiobook. More info...
|
Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy
Narrator : LJ Ganser
Published By : Hachette Audio
Runtime : 11 hours
Type : American Rich & Famous Royalty and Heads of State
Our Price : $39.98 $27.99
The Preacher and the Presidents reveals how the world's most powerful men and world's most famous evangelist, Billy Graham, knit faith and politics together. More info...
|
Pete Hamill
Narrator : Pete Hamill
Published By : Hachette Audio
Runtime : 6 hours
Type : Travel American
Our Price : $31.98 $22.49
Pete Hamill leads us on an unforgettable journey through the city he loves - Manhattan. More info...
|
|