{"product_id":"the-new-yorkers-31-remarkable-people-400-years-and-the-untold-biography-of-the-worlds-greatest-city-paperback","title":"The New Yorkers: 31 Remarkable People, 400 Years, and the Untold Biography of the World's Greatest City - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSam Roberts\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize in Nonfiction\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom award-winning \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e reporter Sam Roberts, the story of the world's most exceptional city, told through 31 little-known yet pivotal inhabitants who helped define it\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e-now in paperback.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorkers\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSome 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. \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorkers\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSam Roberts\u003c\/b\u003e, a 50-year veteran of New York journalism, is an obituaries reporter and former Urban Affairs correspondent at the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e. He has hosted the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \"Close Up\" on TV, and the podcasts \"Only in New York,\" anthologized in a book of the same name, and \"The Caucus.\" He is the author of \u003ci\u003eA History of New York in 27 Buildings\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e A History of New York in 101 Objects\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGrand Central\u003c\/i\u003e, among other books. He has written for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAir Mail\u003c\/i\u003e. A history adviser to Federal Hall, he lives in New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.06 x 8.28 x 5.55 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 19, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51763208782112,"sku":"9781639733712","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/49576a1eee880b924531296013f8fe9f.webp?v=1780229787","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-new-yorkers-31-remarkable-people-400-years-and-the-untold-biography-of-the-worlds-greatest-city-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}