Epic of New York City A Narrative History

Name: Epic of New York City A Narrative History
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ISBN: 9780786714360

ISBN-10: 0786714360

ISBN-13: 9780786714360

Edition: N/A

Authors: Edward Robb Ellis

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Book details

List price: $25.00
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 12/21/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 640
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English




Manhattan is discovered



First settlers arrive



Peter Stuyvesant takes command



The English name it New York



The Leisler Rebellion



Pirates infest New York



Of queesting and fribbles



The Peter Zenger trial



The city goes mad



Duel for empire



The Stamp Act Rebellion



Revolutionary war



The doctors' riot



The capital of the nation



The Hamilton-Burr duel



John Jacob Astor fools the President



Sawing off Manhattan Island



The gangs of New York



Down with foreigners!



The Astor place riot



Slavery and abolitionism



The police riot



Abraham Lincoln arrives



The draft riots



Confederates try to burn down New York



The Tweed scandals



Thomas Edison lights the city



Building Brooklyn Bridge



Metropolitan opera house opens



Creation of the Statue of Liberty



The blizzard of 1888



New York's first skyscraper



Ellis Island opens



The Reverend Parkhurst samples vice



Hearst wages war



Creation of greater New York



Opening of the twentieth century



The General Slocum disaster



Colonel house and Woodrow Wilson



The triangle fire



The League of Nations opens on Broadway



Wall Street is bombed



The Wall Street crash



The Great Depression



The Jimmy Walker scandals



Fiorello LaGuardia becomes mayor



Nazis plan to bomb New York



William O'Dwyer sweats



Robert F. Wagner's administration



"This city is the center of the universe"