Description: As Times Square celebrates its centenary in April 2004, Traub tells the story of how this crossroads came to be the center of popular culture and the symbol of urban excitement all over the world.
Review Quotes: praise for James Traub's previous works:
City on a Hill "An excellent if sorrowful study of what City College has becomesince open admissions...informed, sympathetic, a heartbreaking picture
of New York today."
--Alfred Kazin, The New York Observer "This is a deeply reported, lucidly written and clearly thought-out book--a book
of merit."
--A. M. Rosenthal, The New York Times Book Review Too Good to Be True: The
Outlandish Story of Wedtech "Traub...brings a novelist's sensibility to the vastly complex story; his characters
are so alive and the narrative so vivid that you feel like washing your hands
every time you put the book down."
--John Schwartz, Newsweek