City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New

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City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York

"Told brilliantly, even unforgettably ... An American story, one that belongs to all of us." â€” Boston Globe

â€œA richly textured guide to the history of our immigrant nationâ€™s pinnacle immigrant city has managed to enter the stage during an election season that has resurrected this historically fraught topic in all its fierceness.â€ â€” New York Times Book Review
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New York has been Americaâ€™s city of immigrants for nearly four centuries. Growing from Peter Minuitâ€™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 all over the globe. City of Dreams is the long-overdue, inspiring, and defining account of New Yorkâ€™s immigrants, both famous and forgotten: 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. Over ten years in the making, Tyler Anbinderâ€™s story is one of innovators and artists, revolutionaries and rioters, staggering deprivation and soaring triumphs. In so many ways, todayâ€™s immigrants are just like those who came to America in centuries pastâ€”and their storiesÂ have never before been told with such breadth of scope, lavish research, and resounding spirit.
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â€œA masterful achievement, City of Dreams is the definitive account of the American origin story, as told through our premier metropolis. Bold, exhaustive, always surprising, Anbinderâ€™s book is a wonderful reminder of how we came to be who we are.â€ â€” Timothy Egan, best-selling author of The Immortal IrishmanÂ

Country	USA
Author	Tyler Anbinder
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	Reprint
EISBN	9780544103856
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Mariner Books
Manufacturer	Mariner Books
NumberOfPages	771
PublicationDate	2016-10-18
Publisher	Mariner Books
ReleaseDate	2016-10-18
Studio	Mariner Books

City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York

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