Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America

Author/Contributor(s):	Shorto, Russell
Publisher:	W. W. Norton & Company
Date:	05/26/2026
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Kirkus Reviews, and Publishers Weekly

"Earnest, humorous, intellectual, intense and high-minded." --Rebecca Fraser, Times Literary Supplement

The author of The Island at the Center of the World offers up a thrilling narrative of how New York--that brash, bold, archetypal city--came to be.