The New Yorkers 31 remarkable people, 400 years, and the untold biography of the world's greatest city
"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"
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Bloomsbury Publishing
2022
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Inhaltsangabe:
- John Colman: Whodunit? The first recorded homicide
- Anneke Jans Bogardus: This land is our land
- John Bowne: Practicing what they preach
- Isaac Sears: American began in New York
- John Jay: The capital of capital
- Levi Weeks: The Manhattan well mystery
- Christian Harriot: The original road hogs
- Jacob Hays: The constant constable
- James Gordon Bennett: A penny for his thoughts
- David F. Launy: The first broken windows theory
- Thomas Downing: A man for all seasonings
- John Randel Jr.: The geek who invented gridlock
- John Hughes: The bully pulpit
- Charles O'Connor: Why Irish eyes were smiling
- Elizabeth Jennings: The right to ride
- The Bradley-Martins: After the ball was over
- Charles Down: The day of two noons
- Annie Moore: Coming to America
- Andrew H. Green: Brooklyn's great mistake
- William J. Wilgus: The making of Midtown
- Rudolph Aronson: "Remember me to Union Square"
- Philip A. Payton Jr.: Harlem on his mind
- Audrey Munson: The limitations of statues
- Clara Lemlich: The little lady who could
- Charles F. Murphy: The benevolent boss
- Ciro Terranova: The Mayor and the mobster
- Tex and Jinx: The birth of celebrity
- Lillian Edelstein: Moses: "Let my people stay!"
- Preston Wilcox: The pedigree of Black Power
- Jack Maple: The commonsense cop
- Carmelia Goffe: They built this city