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Learn moreBroadway takes us on a mile-by-mile journey that traces the gradual evolution of the seventeenth-century's Brede Wegh, a muddy cow path in a backwater Dutch settlement, to the twentieth century's Great White Way. We learn why one side of the street was once considered more fashionable than the other; witness construction of the Ansonia Apartments, Trinity Church, and the Flatiron Building and the burning of P. T. Barnum's American Museum; and discover that Columbia University was built on the site of an insane asylum. Along the way we meet Alexander Hamilton, Edgar Allan Poe, John James Audubon, Emma Goldman, "Bill the Butcher" Poole, "Texas" Guinan, and the assorted real estate speculators, impresarios, and politicians who helped turn Broadway into a living paradigm of American progress, at its best and worst. Broadway tells the vivid story of what is arguably the world's most famous thoroughfare.
Fran Leadon is an architect and coauthor of the fifth edition of the AIA Guide to New York City. A native of Gainesville, Florida, he teaches at the City College of New York and lives in Brooklyn.
Kevin Pariseau has recorded over 120 audiobooks, including two Audie Award-nominated works (The Winds of War by Herman Wouk and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers) and Dan Simmons's Ilium (SOVA nomination). He is an AudioFile Earphones Award winner for William Gibson's Burning Chrome and has frequently been featured on the Audible bestseller list for his recordings. His Broadway and Off-Broadway credits include Legally Blonde the Musical (ACCA Award), Show Boat (with the New York Philharmonic), The Explorers Club, and I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change. Regionally, he has appeared in The Producers, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, It's a Wonderful Life, All in the Timing, 9 to 5, and Shear Madness. His film and television work includes roles in Boardwalk Empire (series finale), Tower Heist, and Morning Glory.