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As perhaps never before in its extraordinary history, New York has captured the American imagination. This major anthology brings together not only the best literary writing about New York -- from O. Henry, Theodore Dreiser, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, Paul Auster, and James Baldwin,... read more
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Before 1524, when Giovanni da Verrazano, an Italian in the employ of France, became the first known white man to sail into the great harbor where the Hudson river flows into the Atlantic Ocean, the place that would come to be known as New York City had already been inhabited for centuries by Indians of the Algonquin language group.
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- Kenneth T. Jackson (Author)
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