"The Sun and the Moon is addictive, a mesmerizing story of a great hoax and the old New York where it came to pass wonderfull"---Kevin Baker, author of Dreamland and Paradise Alley<BR><BR>On August 26. 1835, a series of six articles in a fledgling newspaper reported the existence of life on the moon-including unicorns. beavers that walked on their hind legs, and four-foot-tall flying man-bats. In a matter of weeks it was the most widely circulated newspaper story of the era. and the New York Sun. a working-class upstart, became the most widely read paper in the world. An exhilarating narrative history of a divided city on the cusp of greatness and a crew of writers, editors, and charlatans who stumbled on a new kind of journalism. The Sun and the Moon tells the surprisingly true stroy of the penny papers that made America a nation of newspaper readers.<BR><BR>"Mr. Goodman has managed not only to give us a ripping good newspaper yarn but also to illuminate life in the nation's largest city in the early part of the nineteenth century."---Wall Street Journal<BR><BR>"Mr. Goodman's hucksterish subtitle lives up to its remarkable promise."---New York Times<BR><BR>"[A] delightful history."---Los Angeles Times<BR><BR>"Highly entertaining."---Boston Globe<BR><BR>Told in rich, historic detial, The Sun and the Moon, brings the raucous world of 183os New York to life."---Tucson Citizen