San Antonio College Library

"'Tis is the story of Frank's American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur. Frank lands in New York at age nineteen, in the company of a priest he meets on the boat. He gets a job at the Biltmore Hotel, where he immediately encounters the vivid hierarchies of this "classless country," and then is drafted into the army and is sent to Germany to train dogs and type reports." "When Frank returns to America in 1953,...

This book examines the cultural and artistic awakening of New York City through a detailed look at the city's architecture and urbanism during the years `890 - 1925, when the city first acquired a distinct sense of itself as the representative American metropolis, comparable to London and Paris.