The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
by Russell Shorto
Recommended by Alice Korngold
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in American History, History, and Nonfiction.
When the British wrested New Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664, the truth about its thriving, polyglot society began to disappear into myths about an island purchased for 24 dollars and a cartoonish peglegged governor. But the story of the Dutch colony of New Netherland was merely lost, not destroyed: 12,000 pages of its records?recently declared a...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in American History, History, and Nonfiction.
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Alice Korngold
“Loved and highly recommend #IslandAtTheCenteroftheWorld by @RussellShorto Thrilling and illuminating! I sent this announcement to my family and they’re all texting how much they loved this book! #Manhattan #NYC”
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Consider Accidental Presidents by Jared Cohen. Recommended by 10 sources.
“Accidental Presidents offers eight narrative portraits of men who succeeded to the U.S. presidency without election, using anecdote-rich scenes and readable context to show how personality and circumstance interact with office power. It’s strongest as a set of self-contained stories that make succession stakes concrete for non-specialist readers; it does not prioritize dense archival argument or exhaustive methodology, so expect some interpretive generalizations and repeated themes across cases. Use it for fast historical orientation rather than scholarly deep-dives.”
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