Dreamland - City of Fire, Bk 1 Author:Kevin Baker A literary tour de force, a magnificent chronicle of a remarkable era and a place of dreams — 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 ambitio... more »n, it is the epic saga of newcomers drawn to the promise of America -- gangsters and laborers, hucksters and politicians, radicals, reformers, murderers, and sideshow oddities -- whose stories of love, revenge, and tragedy interweave and shine in the artificial electric dazzle of a wondrous place called Dreamland.« less