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The New Yorkers: 31 Remarkable People, 400 Years, and the Untold Biography of the World’s Greatest City
Bottom of the pile
22
/100
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Readers
26/100Critics
17/100Scholars
Author:
Sam Roberts
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Date:
October 25, 2022
The story of the world's most exceptional city, told through 31 little-known yet pivotal inhabitants who helped define it.
What The Reviewers Say
I thought I knew plenty of New York history both epic and trivial. But now I’ve been schooled by a master, and it’s been a pleasure. Sam Roberts’s The New Yorkers: 31 Remarkable People, 400 Years, and the Untold Biography of the World’s Greatest City is an ingenious social history of Gotham rendered in deft profiles.
There are reasons, nowadays, to wonder at the boosterish claim of Roberts’s subtitle.
The 31 profiles herein cover a wide swarth of humanity.
Entertaining and informative.
