The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America
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Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Kirkus Reviews, and Publishers Weekly“Earnest, humorous, intellectual, intense and high-minded.” —Rebecca Fraser, Times Literary SupplementThe author of The Island at the Center of the World offers up a thrilling narrative of how New York—that brash, bold, archetypal city—came to be.