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In 1835, a merchant named Gabriel Disosway marveled at a great fire enveloping New York, commenting on how it spread more and more vividly from the fiery arena, rendering every object, far and wide, minutely discernible--the lower bay and its Islands, with the shores of Long Island and New Jersey. The fire Disosway witnessed devastated a large swath of lower Manhattan, clearing roughly the same number of acres as the World Trade Center bombing. Manhattan Phoenix explores the emergence of modern New York after it emerged from the devastating the fire of 1835--a catastrophe that revealed how truly unprepared and haphazardly organized it was--to become a world-class city merely a quarter of a century later. The one led to other. New York effectively had to start over. Daniel Levy's book charts Manhattan's almost miraculous growth while interweaving the lives of various New Yorkers who took part in the city's transformation. Some are well known, such as the land baron John Jacob Astor and Mayor Fernando Wood. Others less so, as with the African American oysterman Thomas Downing and the Bowery Theatre impresario Thomas Hamblin. Manhattan Phoenix reveals a city first in flames and then in flux but resolute in its determination to emerge as one of the world's greatest metropolises.

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Daniel S. Levy writes for Life, Time, and Time-Life Books-which are part of Meredith Special Interest Media-as well as for National Geographic Books. Prior to that he was a senior reporter at Time magazine, where he covered architecture and classical music, and a reporter at People magazine, where he wrote about social issues and crime. Levy is the author of Two-Gun Cohen, a biography of Morris Cohen, an English adventurer who became a general in the Chinese army. Mike Lenz has been an audiobook narrator and voice actor for more than fourteen years. Having narrated titles in genres ranging from fiction, entertainment, science, and children's literature to Christian, business, self-help, and history, Mike loves bringing nonfiction and fiction stories to life with his engaging, confident, and trustworthy voice. Mike's broad background includes voicing commercials, eLearning projects, real estate videos, corporate and web-based videos, and brand imaging, appearing in regional and national television commercials as an on-camera talent, and serving as the mayor of his hometown of Saratoga Springs, New York. Mike is also a Voice Arts Award-nominated podcast producer as well as an author. He is a frequent speaker at learning and voice-over conferences. Mike currently lives in Saratoga Springs, New York, with his wife and four children.

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