{"product_id":"enchanted-new-york-a-journey-along-broadway-through-manhattans-magical-past-9781479838264","title":"Enchanted New York: A Journey Along Broadway Through Manhattan's Magical Past","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA fantastical field guide to the hidden history of New York's magical past\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eManhattan has a pervasive quality of glamour--a heightened sense of personality generated by a place whose cinematic, literary, and commercial celebrity lends an aura of the fantastic to even its most commonplace locales. \u003ci\u003eEnchanted New York \u003c\/i\u003echronicles an alternate history of this magical isle. It offers a tour along Broadway, focusing on times and places that illuminate a forgotten and sometimes hidden history of New York through site-specific stories of wizards, illuminati, fortune tellers, magicians, and more. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eProgressing up New York's central thoroughfare, this guidebook to magical Manhattan offers a history you won't find in your \u003ci\u003eLonely Planet\u003c\/i\u003e or\u003ci\u003e Fodor's\u003c\/i\u003e guide, tracing the arc of American technological alchemies--from Samuel Morse and Robert Fulton to the Manhattan Project--to Mesmeric physicians, to wonder-working Madame Blavatsky, and seers Helena Roerich and Alice Bailey. Harry Houdini appears and disappears, as the world's premier stage magician's feats of prestidigitation fade away to reveal a much more mysterious--and meaningful--marquee of magic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUnlike old-world cities, New York has no ancient monuments to mark its magical adolescence. There is no local memory embedded in the landscape of celebrated witches, warlocks, gods, or goddesses--no myths of magical metamorphoses. As we follow Kevin Dann in geographical and chronological progression up Broadway from Battery Park to Inwood, each chapter provides a surprising picture of a city whose ever-changing fortunes have always been founded on magical activity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/27\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781479838264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.10d","brand":"Kevin Dann","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36652736512156,"sku":"9781479838264","price":22.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_141e1bc7-195c-4e84-8e93-de1b89d0b16d.jpg?v=1603880397","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/enchanted-new-york-a-journey-along-broadway-through-manhattans-magical-past-9781479838264","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}