Daniel Brook
Autore di A History of Future Cities
Sull'Autore
Daniel Brook is the author of The Trap and a jounalist whose work has appeared in publications including Harper's, Nation, Foreign Policy, and Slate. A New York native, Brook lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Opere di Daniel Brook
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- Sesso
- male
- Luogo di nascita
- Brooklyn
- Luogo di residenza
- New Orleans
- Attività lavorative
- journalist
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- 280
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- 4.1
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- 4
- ISBN
- 10
I finished the book and it went more or less as I anticipated: tons of new information on Shanghai and Mumbai, then torture with St. Petersburg. Thank God later Dubai joined it as a whipping boy. All in all impression left by the book: St. Petersburg and Dubai is hubris, two others are shining examples of daring human spirit.
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Just started. Intro was inspiring. Along came Chapter 1 on my native Russia and the city I lived 2 years in and a monarch about whom Robert K. Massie wrote a stunning masterpiece (Peter the Great: His Life and World). Nearly every paragraph makes me cringe: patronizing tone here, dubious shortcut there, sensation making oversimplification here, weird (an never heard by me) quote there. Oh, my what shall I do? I want to love the book, I want to believe it. But if I see how freely (and arbitrarily) he juggles the story of St. Petersburg to shoehorn it into his slick narrative, should I take his word for the places I know little about: Shanghai, Mumbai, Dubai? Or he massages their stories in a similar fashion?… (altro)