Book Review: The New Yorkers

 

The New Yorkers

31 Remarkable People, 400 Years, and the Untold Biography of the World's Greatest City

by Sam Roberts

Pub Date 25 Oct 2022 | Archive Date 30 Sep 2022

 Bloomsbury USA,  Bloomsbury Publishing

 Biographies & Memoirs  |  History  |  Nonfiction (Adult)

I am reviewing a copy of The New Yorkers through Bloomsbury USA, and Netgalley:

The New Yorkers is Sam Roberts's pulsating history of the world's most exceptional metropolis, greet the city anew through thirty-one unique New Yorkers you've probably never heard of-just in time for the city's 400th birthday.

In The New Yorkers Sam Robert’s introduces the first woman to appear nude in a motion picture, becoming the face of Civic Fame as Miss Manhattan; the couple whose soirée ended the Gilded Age with an embarrassing bang; and the husband and wife who invented the modern celebrity talk show. The book also reveals New York’s first recorded murder in the seventeenth century as well as the high school drop out who slashed New York’s crime rates in the twentieth century.  The notorious mobster who was imperiously banished from the city and the woman who successfully sued a bus company for racial discrimination a century before Rosa Parks.

Some deserved monuments, but their grandeur was overlooked or forgotten. Others shepherded the city through its perpetual evolution, but discreetly. Virtually all have vanished into New York's uncombed history. The New Yorkers is a living biography of the world's greatest city, and no one knows New York better than Sam Roberts-or is better at bringing its history to life.

I give The New Yorkers five out of five stars!

Happy Reading!