Kevin Baker is the author of the New York, City of Fire trilogy: Dreamland, Paradise Alley, and Strivers Row. Most recently, he’s been writing about politics for Harper’s Magazine and the New York Observer.
Books in order of publication:
Sometimes You See It Coming (1993)
The American Century (1998; with Harold Evans and Gail Buckland)
Dreamland (1999)
Paradise Alley (2002)
“Rudy Giuliani and the Myth of Modern New York” (2005; in America’s Mayor: The Hidden History of Giuliani’s New York)
“Lost-Found Nation: The Last Meeting Between Elijah Muhammad and W.D. Fard” (2006; in I Wish I’d Been There)
Strivers Row (2006)
Luna Park (2011; with artist Danijel Žeželj)
The Big Crowd (2013)
Becoming Mr. October (2014)
America The Ingenious: How a nation of dreamers, immigrants, and tinkerers changed the world (2016)
The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City – 2024
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