Tyler Anbinder

City of Dreams (eBook, ePUB)

The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This sweeping history of New York's millions of immigrants, both famous and forgotten, is "told brilliantly [and] unforgettably" (The Boston Globe). Written by an acclaimed historian and including maps and photos, this is the story of the peoples who have come to New York for four centuries: an American story of millions of immigrants, hundreds of languages, and one great city. Growing from Peter Minuit's tiny settlement of 1626 to a clamorous metropolis with more than three million immigrants today, the city has always been a magnet for transplants from around the globe. City of Dreamsis the long-overdue, inspiring, and defining account of the young man from the Caribbean who relocated to New York and became a founding father; Russian-born Emma Goldman, who condoned the murder of American industrialists as a means of aiding downtrodden workers; Dominican immigrant Oscar de la Renta, who dressed first ladies from Jackie Kennedy to Michelle Obama; and so many more. Over ten years in the making, Tyler Anbinder's story is one of innovators and artists, revolutionaries and rioters, staggering deprivation and soaring triumphs. In so many ways, today's immigrants are just like those who came to America in centuries past-and their stories have never before been told with such breadth of scope, lavish research, and resounding spirit. "Anbinder is a master at taking a history with which many readers will be familiar-tenement houses, temperance societies, slums-and making it new, strange, and heartbreakingly vivid. The stories of individuals, including those of the entrepreneurial Steinway brothers and the tragic poet Pasquale D'Angelo, are undeniably compelling, but it's Anbinder's stunning image of New York as a true city of immigrants that captures the imagination." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HMH Books
• Seitenzahl: 768
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780544103856
• Artikelnr.: 44907344

Autorenporträt

TYLER ANBINDER is a professor of history at George Washington University. He is the author of three books, including the prize-winning Five Points and Nativism and Slavery. His ancestors came to New York from southwest Germany, Poland, Ukraine, and Russia.