The Gramercy Park Hotel: A New York City Icon
Sex, Drugs, & Room Service (2026)
The History Press
Since it opened in 1925, the Gramercy Park premiere cultural hotspots. Early in its history it served as the backdrop to Humphrey Bogart's first marriage and housed a young John F. Kennedy. Soon Babe Ruth was a regular at the bar, and Joe DiMaggio was feted there. Most famous, perhaps, was the period in the 1970s, when rock 'n' roll royalty dubbed the hotel "the Glamercy," and acts such as the Clash, David Bowie, Bob Dvlan, Lou Reed, Madonna, and more stayed "on the way up or on the way down." The hotel's history also includes the harrowing personal story of the Weissberg family who owned it for many years and lived there. Author Max Weissberg reveals an inside look at the hotel's storied past as a rock 'n' roll muse and a New York icon.
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Philosophies of Greek Tragedy from Schiller to Nietzsche (2007)
VDM (Germany)
Philosophers in 19th-century Germany attempted to explain both the essence of tragedy and the source of the pleasure experienced while watching tragedy. Even though their arguments were not intended to be read as histories of ancient Greece, their theories were deeply influenced by their understandings of this time period. This book examines both the progression of philosophies of tragedy from Schiller to Nietzsche and the relationship between these philosophies and assumptions about ancient Greece.
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