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Mike Wallace, Who Wrote an Acclaimed History of New York, Dies at 83 His
1998 book, "Gotham," which told the city's story to 1898, focused on
social and economic conflict. It won a Pulitzer Prize and inspired two sequels.
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danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:

[NYTimes]

Mike Wallace, Who Wrote an Acclaimed History of New York, Dies at 83 His 1998 book, "Gotham," which told the city's story to 1898, focused on
social and economic conflict. It won a Pulitzer Prize and inspired two sequels.
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My copy (yet to be read,along with "New York City" by Guinness-record
diarist Edward Robb Ellis) says "by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace"
so was Wallace the sole author of the "sequels"?

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In article <112gf3f$5pa$1@reader1.panix.com>, le@lekno.ws says...

danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:

[NYTimes]

Mike Wallace, Who Wrote an Acclaimed History of New York, Dies at 83 His 1998 book, "Gotham," which told the city's story to 1898, focused on
social and economic conflict. It won a Pulitzer Prize and inspired two sequels.
======

My copy (yet to be read,along with "New York City" by Guinness-record
diarist Edward Robb Ellis) says "by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace"
so was Wallace the sole author of the "sequels"?

Yes. The two sequels are "Greater Gotham: A History of New York City
from 1898 to 1919" and "Gotham at War: A History of New York City from
1933 to 1945", both attributed to Wallace alone.
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Dave Garrett <dave@compassnet.com> wrote:

In article <112gf3f$5pa$1@reader1.panix.com>, le@lekno.ws says...

danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:

[NYTimes]

Mike Wallace, Who Wrote an Acclaimed History of New York, Dies at 83 His >> > 1998 book, "Gotham," which told the city's story to 1898, focused on
social and economic conflict. It won a Pulitzer Prize and inspired two
sequels.
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My copy (yet to be read,along with "New York City" by Guinness-record
diarist Edward Robb Ellis) says "by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace"
so was Wallace the sole author of the "sequels"?

Yes. The two sequels are "Greater Gotham: A History of New York City
from 1898 to 1919" and "Gotham at War: A History of New York City from
1933 to 1945", both attributed to Wallace alone.

So who gets to handle 1919-1933?

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In article <112j3kf$5ua$1@reader1.panix.com>, le@lekno.ws says...

Dave Garrett <dave@compassnet.com> wrote:

In article <112gf3f$5pa$1@reader1.panix.com>, le@lekno.ws says...

danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:

[NYTimes]

Mike Wallace, Who Wrote an Acclaimed History of New York, Dies at 83 His
1998 book, "Gotham," which told the city's story to 1898, focused on
social and economic conflict. It won a Pulitzer Prize and inspired two >> > sequels.
======

My copy (yet to be read,along with "New York City" by Guinness-record
diarist Edward Robb Ellis) says "by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace"
so was Wallace the sole author of the "sequels"?

Yes. The two sequels are "Greater Gotham: A History of New York City
from 1898 to 1919" and "Gotham at War: A History of New York City from 1933 to 1945", both attributed to Wallace alone.

So who gets to handle 1919-1933?

That'll probably have to be the proverbial player to be named later. I'm assuming Prof. Wallace didn't have any other volumes in progress at the
time of his death, as Gotham at War was just published at the end of
last year. Given that he had Lewy body dementia, it was probably a
struggle for him to finish up work on Gotham at War before he was no
longer able to do so.
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