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Anbinder offers an account of New York's both famous and forgotten immigrants, stories of innovators and artists, revolutionaries and rioters, staggering deprivation and soaring triumphs.



About the Author

Tyler Anbinder

Tyler Anbinder is an Associate Professor of History at George Washington University. His first book, Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of the 1850's, was a New York Times Book Review Notable Book and the winner of the Avery Craven Prize of the Organization of American Historians. He lives in Arlington, Virginia.



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