Jill Jonnes Books
Urban Forests
By Jill Jonnes
“Far-ranging and deeply researched, Urban Forests reveals the beauty and significance of the trees around us.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction“Jonnes extol...
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Conquering Gotham
By Jill Jonnes
“Superb. [A] first-rate narrative” (The Wall Street Journal) about the controversial construction of New York’s beloved original Penn Station and its tunnels, from the author of Eiffel's Tower and...
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Eiffel's Tower
By Jill Jonnes
The story of the world-famous monument and the extraordinary world’s fair that introduced it, by the author of Conquering Gotham and Urban Forests In this first general history of the Eiffel Tower...
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Empires of Light
By Jill Jonnes
The gripping history of electricity and how the fateful collision of Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse left the world utterly transformed.In the final decades of the nineteenth c...
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Urban forests
By Jill Jonnes
"Nature's largest and longest-lived creations, trees play an extraordinarily important role in our cityscapes, living landmarks that define space, cool the air, soothe our psyches, and connect us t...
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Conquering Gotham A Gilded Age Epic
By Jill Jonnes
Traces the epic story of the struggle to build Penn Station, describing how the nation's most powerful railroad tackled Tammany Hall corruption and the forces of nature to create a tunnel system li...
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Hep cats narcs and pipe dreams
By Jill Jonnes
Traces the spread of illegal drugs throughout our culture: from the freewheeling Prohibition era through World War II, to the 'flower power' 1960s right right up to the present, when stories about...
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