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From award-winning New York Times reporter Sam Roberts, the story of the world's most exceptional city, told through 31 little-known yet pivotal inhabitants who helped define it.In 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.The New Yorkers 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. It reveals the victim of the city's first recorded murder in the seventeenth century and the high school dropout who slashed crime rates in the twentieth.
About the Author
Sam Roberts is the Urban Affairs Correspondent of The New York Times and the host of New York Times Close Up on NY1 News.For more on "A History of New York in 101 Objects" see:http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/26/artifacts-that-encapsulate-new-york-city/? _php=true&_type=blogs&emc=eta1&_r=0
