Tyler Anbinder: 2 books
Five Points
The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
The very letters of the two words seem, as they are written, to redden with the blood-stains of unavenged crime. There is Murder in every syllable, and Want, Misery and Pestilence take startling form and crowd upon the imagination as the pen traces the words." So wrote a reporter about Five Points,...
City of Dreams
The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
**"Told brilliantly, even unforgettably ... An American story, one that belongs to all of us." — Boston Globe
“A richly textured guide to the history of our immigrant nation’s pinnacle immigrant city has managed to enter the stage during an election season that has resurrected...