In The City’s End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York’s Destruction, historian Max Page writes about a kind of cult of destruction that has hung over Gotham City since at least the 1800s, with everything from comets to Godzilla to gigantic waves.
In examining these imagined cataclsums, Page tries to provide a historical perspective in relation to the events of Sept. 11, 2001.
Page is a professor of architecture and history at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. The book is published by Yale University Press.

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