About the Author

Donald L. Miller is the John Henry MacCracken Professor of History Emeritus at Lafayette College and author of ten books, including Vicksburg, and Masters of the Air, currently being made into a television series by Tom Hanks. He has hosted, coproduced, or served as historical consultant for more than thirty television documentaries and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other publications.

Reviews

"Supreme City sings with all the excitement and the brilliance of the Jazz Age it recounts. Donald Miller is one of America's most fervent and insightful writers about the urban experience; here he gives us New York City at its grandest and most optimistic."--Kevin Baker, author of The Big Crowd

"Supreme City captures a vanished Gotham in all its bustle, gristle, and glory."--David Friend "Vanity Fair "

"A great skyscraper of a book. Supreme City is the improbable story not just of America's greatest metropolis during the Jazz Age, but the biography of an epoch."--Rick Atkinson, author of The Guns at Last Light: The War in Europe, 1944-1945

"Donald L. Miller has long been one of my favorite historians. Anyone who reads Supreme City will understand why. Miller brilliantly examines the birth of Midtown Manhattan during the glorious Jazz Age. It's the story of how a gaggle of success-hungry out-of-towners--including Duke Ellington, Walter Chrysler, E. B. White, and William Paley--turned the Valley of Giant Skyscrapers near Grand Central Terminal into the symbolic epicenter of wealth, power, and American can-doism. Highly recommended!"--Douglas Brinkley, Professor of History, Rice University and author of Cronkite

"Lively . . . synthesizes a vast amount of material on everything from skyscrapers to showgirls to create a scintillating portrait of Manhattan in the '20s. . . . Much of Supreme City's charm comes from the amiable way Donald Miller ambles through Jazz Age Manhattan, exploring any corner of it that strikes his fancy."--Wendy Smith "The Daily Beast "

"Miller's Supreme City is an awesome book on an awesome subject, a time in the history of New York City when commerce and culture engaged in a symbiotic relationship, spurring an unprecedented boom in architecture, art, music, theater, popular culture and communications that lit up the city, then America, and then the world."--Allen Barra "The Daily Beast "