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Taking Manhattan
The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America
Russell Shorto
2025
W. W. Norton & Co.
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On the Colonial Power Struggle That Would Give Birth to the City of New York
For historian Russell Shorto, it was all about water.
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