The Catskills

Zusatztext Excitement about Stephen Silverman's THE CATSKILLS Handsomely illustrated . . . Everyone's always predicting that the Catskills are going to make a comeback. They're beautiful! inexpensive! accessible and! as Silverman and Silver demonstrate! rich in historical interest. Nicholas Lemann! Times Book Review Should be commended for its sheer ambition . . . engaging . . . Although we think we may have read some of this in different form elsewhere! it puts everythingor almost everythingtogether in one place! providing texture! context! chronology! and a narrative framework for a region with a history as rich and abundant as the fare served at any of its storied hotels. Jack Schwartz! Daily Beast Remarkable! enthusiastic! well-researched . . . The authors blend history and folklore to create a perfect addition to any New York State history collection. Library Journal Lively . . . Stuffed with interesting sidebars and biographical sketches! the authors' loose-limbed texts meanders along many an intriguing byway of quaint and forgotten lore. Readers will enjoy this absorbing browse through a multifaceted regional history that's deeper than its surface glitz might suggest. Publishers Weekly Those who've seen the Catskills will love how the authors capture its magic. Those who haven't will start planning a trip. Kirkus I love this book. The Catskills shaped my life. I will forever be grateful to those tough Jewish audiences. If you could make them laugh! you could conquer the world." Mel Brooks Informationen zum Autor STEPHEN M. SILVERMAN is a twenty-year veteran of Time Inc. and was the founding editor of People.com. His books include biographies of the filmmakers David Lean and Stanley Donen, and his work has appeared in Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, The New York Times, The Times (London), Vogue, and The Washington Post. He lives in New York City. RAPHAEL D. SILVER grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of a rabbi, and lived in New York City until his death in 2013. A real-estate developer, he founded Silverfilm with his wife, director Joan Micklin Silver, and produced her Hester Street and Crossing Delancey. His first novel, Congregation, was published posthumously. Klappentext The Catskills ("Cat Creek" in Dutch)! America's original frontier! northwest of New York City! with its seven hundred thousand acres of forest land preserve and its five counties-Delaware! Greene! Sullivan! Ulster! Schoharie; America's first great vacationland; the subject of the nineteenth-century Hudson River School paintings that captured the almost godlike majesty of the mountains and landscapes! the skies! waterfalls! pastures! cliffs . . . refuge and home to poets and gangsters! tycoons and politicians! preachers and outlaws! musicians and spiritualists! outcasts and rebels . . . Stephen Silverman and Raphael Silver tell of the turning points that made the Catskills so vital to the development of America: Henry Hudson's first spotting the distant blue mountains in 1609; the New York State constitutional convention! resulting in New York's own Declaration of Independence from Great Britain and its own constitution! causing the ire of the invading British army . . . the Catskills as a popular attraction in the 1800s! with the construction of the Catskill Mountain House and its rugged imitators that offered WASP guests "one-hundred percent restricted" accommodations ("Hebrews will ...

Excitement about Stephen Silverman’s
THE CATSKILLS
 
“Handsomely illustrated . . . Everyone’s always predicting that the Catskills are going to make a comeback. They’re beautiful, inexpensive, accessible and, as Silverman and Silver demonstrate, rich in historical interest.”                                 — Nicholas Lemann, Times Book Review
 
“Should be commended for its sheer ambition . . . engaging . . . Although we think we may have read some of this in different form elsewhere, it puts everything—or almost everything—together in one place, providing texture, context, chronology, and a narrative framework for a region with a history as rich and abundant as the fare served at any of its storied hotels.”
                                                                  — Jack Schwartz, Daily Beast
 
“Remarkable, enthusiastic, well-researched . . . The authors blend history and folklore to create a perfect addition to any New York State history collection.”
                                                                  — Library Journal


“Lively . . . Stuffed with interesting sidebars and biographical sketches, the authors' loose-limbed texts meanders along many an intriguing byway of quaint and forgotten lore.  Readers will enjoy this absorbing browse through a multifaceted regional history that’s deeper than its surface glitz might suggest.”                                              — Publishers Weekly


“Those who've seen the Catskills will love how the authors capture its magic. Those who haven't will start planning a trip.”                                 — Kirkus 
 
“I love this book. The Catskills shaped my life. I will forever be grateful to those tough Jewish audiences. If you could make them laugh, you could conquer the world."
                                                                  — Mel Brooks
 



Autorentext
STEPHEN M. SILVERMAN is a twenty-year veteran of Time Inc. and was the founding editor of People.com. His books include biographies of the filmmakers David Lean and Stanley Donen, and his work has appeared in Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, The New York Times, The Times (London), Vogue, and The Washington Post. He lives in New York City.

RAPHAEL D. SILVER grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of a rabbi, and lived in New York City until his death in 2013. A real-estate developer, he founded Silverfilm with his wife, director Joan Micklin Silver, and produced her Hester Street and Crossing Delancey. His first novel, Congregation, was published posthumously.

Klappentext
The Catskills ("Cat Creek" in Dutch), America's original frontier, northwest of New York City, with its seven hundred thousand acres of forest land preserve and its five counties-Delaware, Greene, Sullivan, Ulster, Schoharie; America's first great vacationland; the subject of the nineteenth-century Hudson River School paintings that captured the almost godlike majesty of the mountains and landscapes, the skies, waterfalls, pastures, cliffs . . . refuge and home to poets and gangsters, tycoons and politicians, preachers and outlaws, musicians and spiritualists, outcasts and rebels . . .

Stephen Silverman and Raphael Silver tell of the turning points that made the Catskills so vital to the development of America: He…

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