<blockquote> <p><i>A literary tour de force, a magnificent chronicle of a remarkable era and a place of dreams</i></p> </blockquote> <p> In a stunning work of imagination and memory, author Kevin Baker brings to mesmerizing life a vibrant, colorful, thrilling, and dangerous New York City in the earliest years of the twentieth century. A novel breathtaking in its scope and ambition, it is the epic saga of newcomers drawn to the promise of America&#8212;gangsters and laborers, hucksters and politicians, radicals, reformers, murderers, and sideshow oddities&#8212;whose stories of love, revenge, and tragedy interweave and shine in the artificial electric dazzle of a wondrous place called Dreamland. </p>