Meet Me at the Theresa: The Story of Harlem's Most Famous Hotel

By Sondra Kathryn Wilson

Book Overview

A "brassy yet deeply respectful book" ( Publishers Weekly ), this is a lively social history based on first-hand accounts of the legendary Hotel Theresa--one of the New York landmarks that established... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743466888
• ISBN13: 9780743466882
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Atria Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.2" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Interesting portrait

This is a good, readable account of the famous Harlem hotel and the role it played in black American culture in the first half of the 20th century. For my own peculiar purposes, I wish it had more to say about the hotel's very last years in the early 1960s, but of course that wasn't its heyday. It gives a great view of the place, its meaning, and its people in the 1940s and 1950s, and describes aspects of African-American society that too easily get forgotten in simplistic descriptions of race in America around that time.Nutty to Meet You! Dr. Peanut Book #1