The lives of three remarkable families become entwined with Henry Ford, Harry Houdini, J.P. Morgan, Theodore Dreiser, Sigmund Freud, and Emiliano Zapata at the turn of the century.
The story of Billy Bathgate, a boy who has insinuated himself into the inner circle of the notorious Dutch Schultz gang to become apprentice and protege to one of the great murdering gangsters.
A New York novelist in search of a story becomes involved in the mystery of who stole the large brass cross that hung behind the altar of St. Timothy's Episcopal church in Manhattan and installed it on the roof of the Synagogue for Evolutionary Judaism on the Upper West Side.
The story of Billy Bathgate, a boy who has insinuated himself into the inner circle of the notorious Dutch Schultz gang to become apprentice and protege to one of the great murdering gangsters.
Three remarkable families lives' become entwined with Henry Ford, Harry Houdini, J.P. Morgan, Theodore Dreiser, Sigmund Freud, and Emiliano Zapata at the turn of the century.
A collection of essays by E. L. Doctorow that explore the nature of imaginative thought, considering the many forms of creativity and the subjects that have tested his own imagination.
