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

By Russell Shorto
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By Russell Shorto
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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 Supplement


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. Charles II and his brother, the Duke of York, had dreams of e...

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