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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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A New Yorker Best Book of the Year

A Kirkus Best Book of 2025


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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 empire, and their archrivals, the Dutch, were in the way. But Richard Nicolls...

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