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The New Yorkers
Sam Roberts
其他書名
31 Remarkable People, 400 Years, and the Untold Biography of the World's Greatest City
出版
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
, 2022-10-25
主題
History / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General
Biography & Autobiography / Historical
Biography & Autobiography / General
ISBN
1620409798
9781620409794
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=JqtwEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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Longlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize in Nonfiction
From award-winning
New York Times
reporter Sam Roberts, the story of the world's most exceptional city, told through 31 little-known yet pivotal inhabitants who helped define it.
In Sam Roberts's pulsating history of the world's most exceptional metropolis, greet the city anew through thirty-one unique New Yorkers you've probably never heard of-just in time for the city's 400th birthday.
The New Yorkers
introduces the first woman to appear nude in a motion picture, becoming the face of Civic Fame as Miss Manhattan; the couple whose soirée ended the Gilded Age with an embarrassing bang; and the husband and wife who invented the modern celebrity talk show. It reveals the victim of the city's first recorded murder in the seventeenth century and the high school dropout who slashed crime rates in the twentieth. The notorious mobster who was imperiously banished from the city and the woman who successfully sued a bus company for racial discrimination a century before Rosa Parks.
Some deserved monuments, but their grandeur was overlooked or forgotten. Others shepherded the city through its perpetual evolution, but discreetly. Virtually all have vanished into New York's uncombed history.
The New Yorkers
is a living biography of the world's greatest city, and no one knows New York better than Sam Roberts-or is better at bringing its history to life.