Taking Manhattan: Russell Shorto on the Origins of New York
Acclaimed historian and bestselling author Russell Shorto offers up a thrilling new narrative of how New York City–brash, bold, and archetypal–came to be. Bristling with vibrant characters, Taking Manhattan reveals the founding of New York to be an invention, the result of creative negotiations that would blend the multiethnic, capitalistic society of New Amsterdam with the power of the rising English empire. But the birth of what might be termed the first modern city is also a story of the brutal dispossession of Native Americans and of the roots of American slavery.
