The New Yorkers
31 Remarkable People, 400 Years, and the Untold Biography of the World's Greatest City
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The New Yorkers
ナレーター：
Jamie Renell
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ナレーター：
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Jamie Renell
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著者：
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Sam Roberts
Longlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize in Nonfiction
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. 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.©2022 Sam Roberts (P)2022 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An ingenious social history of Gotham rendered in deft profiles … [Roberts] is an ace at compact biography ... And he is an industrious researcher, mining fascinating nuggets—some profound, some just fun—from sources familiar and obscure … You’re likely to finish the book with a new appreciation of the ingenuity, courage, guile and sacrifice that transformed the wooded wilderness Henry Hudson first explored into today’s throbbing, perilous 21st-century metropolis.
Roberts knows his New York, in the way both of a scholar who’s read everything ever published on the city’s past and of a reporter who’s spent his career engaging its people … [The New Yorkers] abounds in rich portraits of unheralded New Yorkers whose lives — and, in some cases, deaths — are worth recalling.
[The New Yorkers] is my favorite kind of municipal portrait, a gathering of profiles, not of the famous but the merely pivotal. So, murder victims, union organizers and talk show hosts. As Roberts writes: ‘Sometimes people who seem small at the time leave a larger-than-life legacy.'
[The New Yorkers is] a detailed look at mostly unknown folks who contributed to the city … Roberts focuses on ordinary people involved in extraordinary things, city dwellers who caught our imagination – at least for a moment.
Few writers have both a keen eye for biographical detail and the ability to place those details in a portrait that resonates across history. Sam Roberts, who has worked for The New York Times for decades, is that kind of writer, as he deftly proves in his new book.
Roberts knows New York on an almost cellular level … Roberts tells an epic tale through these 31 stories, the evolution of a great city developed by people who wrote history with their lives.
Roberts, a legendary chronicler of the city, now writing obituaries for the New York Times, digs into the past and illuminates New Yorkers who didn’t make it into the usual narratives of the city yet played a transformative role or personified a moment in its history . . . a congenial expert guide in essays.
[Sam Roberts] has done a fantastic job of engaging his readers with the past … The New Yorkers is an excellent book that readers will find fascinating and full of interesting historical tidbits.
You don’t have to be a New Yorker or even a big-city dweller to be delighted by the tales that author Sam Roberts offers … This is history at its most enjoyable, no matter where you live or hail from. If you love a book full of surprises, put ‘The New Yorkers’ on your radar.
Entertaining and informative … Roberts’s wry wit and rigorous research enliven accounts of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, the displacement of white residents from Harlem, and more. The result is a treasure trove of New York City lore.
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