New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan Poetry_Gift_Guide A novel of tender humor

A novel of tender humor

● over 300 range maps and 3

” —The Washington Times

Kicking things off

deconstructs urban social conventions with ease and wit

New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan Poetry_Gift_Guide A novel of tender humorPULITZER PRIZE FINALIST ANISFIELD WOLF AWARD WINNER A revelatory study of the ways in which slavery both destabilized and created American politics. Vivid and provocative; [Lepore] evokes eighteenth century New York in all its moral and physical messiness. The New Yorker A historical study that is both intellectually rigorous and broadly accessible. . . . The type of book that we need to read and historians need to write, more often. Newsday In New