Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America by Russell Shorto

Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America

Russell Shorto

402 pages • first pub 2025 (view editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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The 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.In 1664, England decided to invade the Dutch-controlled city of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. Cha...

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