Toronto: Biography of a City: Levine, Allan: 9781771000222

With the same eye for character, anecdote and circumstance that made Peter Ackroyd’s London and Colin Jones’ s Paris so successful, Levine’ s captivating prose integrates the sights, sounds and feel of Toronto with a broad historical perspective, linking the city’ s present with its past through themes such as politics, transportation, public health, ethnic diversity and sports.

Toronto invites readers to discover the city’ s lively spirit over four centuries and to wander purposefully through the city’ s many unique neighborhoods, where they can encounter the striking and peculiar characters who have inhabited them: the powerful and powerless, the entrepreneurs and the entertainers, and the moral and the corrupt, all of whom have contributed to Toronto’ s collective identity.