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Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America
$29.99 Add to cartIn 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 empire, and their archrivals, the Dutch,
- Author: Shorto, Russell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 393881164
- Language: English
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Revolution Song: The Story of America’s Founding in Six Remarkable Lives
$17.95 Read moreAt a time when America’s founding principles are being debated as never before, Russell Shorto looks back to the era in which those principles were forged. In Revolution Song, Shorto weaves the lives
- Author: Shorto, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: November 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0393356213
- Language: English
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Amsterdam: A History of the World’s Most Liberal City
$20.00 Add to cartAn endlessly entertaining portrait of the city of Amsterdam and the ideas that make it unique, by the author of the acclaimed Island at the Center of the World
Tourists know Amsterdam as a picturesqu- Author: Shorto, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 12 2014
- ISBN10: 0307743756
- Language: English
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Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob
$17.95 Add to cartBest-selling author Russell Shorto, praised for his incisive works of narrative history, never thought to write about his own past. He grew up knowing his grandfather and namesake was a small-town mob
- Author: Shorto, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1324020172
- Language: English
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The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
$20.00 Read moreIn a riveting, groundbreaking narrative, Russell Shorto tells the story of New Netherland, the Dutch colony which pre-dated the Pilgrims and established ideals of tolerance and individual rights that … [more below]
- Author: Shorto, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 12 2005
- ISBN10: 1400078679
- Language: English
