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Al Capone: A Biography
by Luciano J Iorizzo
Publisher: Greenwood Press 2003
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For more than 70 years, the name Al Capone has been equated with wealth, violence, and corruption. This concise biography helps separate the myth from the man, and is a perfect starting place for students interested in the man known as "Scarface, " who... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Alexander Hamilton
by Ron Chernow
Publisher: Penguin Books 2004
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Building on biographies by Richard Brookhiser and Willard Sterne Randall, Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton provides what may be the most comprehensive modern examination of the often overlooked Founding Father. From the start, Chernow argues that... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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The Assassination of New York
by Robert Fitch
Publisher: Verso Books 1993
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Robert Fitch's The Assassination of New York unearthed Gotham's great secret: how its multinational banks and landowning families, led by the Rockefellers, scuttled the City's matchless port and planned the destruction of its once rich manufacturing... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Butchery on Bond Street
by Benjamin Feldman
Publisher: New York Wanderer Press 2007
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Butchery on Bond Street recounts a gruesome mid-19th century murder in New York City, as infamous in its day as the O. J. Simpson case has been in ours. The sordid tale of Emma Cunningham and Dr. Harvey Burdell and its socio-political importance amidst... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Cooperative Village
by Frances Madeson
Publisher: Carol MRP Co. 2007
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Called “anarchically funny” and “a blast of light in a dark time,” Cooperative Village is a ferociously comic novel which tells the tale of an ordinary New Yorker who becomes bound for “enemy combatant status”—and possible deportation to... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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David Rockefeller - Memoirs
by David Rockefeller
Publisher: Random House 2002
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Born into one of the wealthiest families in America—he was the youngest son of Standard Oil scion John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and the celebrated patron of modern art Abby Aldrich Rockefeller—David Rockefeller has carried his birthright into a... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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For James And Gillian: Jim Gill's New York
by James F Gill
Publisher: Fordham University Press 2003
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The inspiring memoir of a man The New York Times has called a "power broker with blarney in his pen."
James E Gill is one of the most influential New Yorkers you've never heard of. Now a senior partner at a prestigious New York law firm, Gill has... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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How East New York Became A Ghetto
by Walter Thabit
Publisher: New York University Press 2003
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In response to the riots of the mid-'60s, Walter Thabit was hired to work with the community of East New York to develop a plan for low- and moderate-income public housing. In the years that followed, he experienced first-hand the forces that had... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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State Of The Union: New York And The Civil War
by Harold Holzer
Publisher: Fordham University Press and New York State Archives Partnership Trust 2002
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This book pays long-needed attention to the neglected subject of New York's role in the Civil War with a series of compelling essays by top Civil War historians. Chapters focus on such diverse subjects as changing race and gender relations on the home... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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White Boy: A Memoir
by Mark Naison
Publisher: Temple University Press 2002
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For our generation, writes Fordham University African-American studies professor Naison, part of becoming American was becoming culturally black.' In this forthright and thoughtful memoir, Naison (Communists in Harlem During the Depression), who became,... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature
by D. Graham Burnett
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740 Park: The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building
by Michael Gross
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A House On The Heights
by Truman Capote
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A Moment in the Sun
by John Sayles
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Abandoned: Foundlings in Nineteenth-Century New York City
by Julie Miller
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American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, The Birth of the "It" Girl and The Crime of the Century.
by Paula Uruburu
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Fat of the Land: The Garbage Behind New York-The Last Two Hundred Years
by Benjamin Miller
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Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners during the American Revolution
by Edwin G. Burrows
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Gastropolis: Food and New York City
by Annie Hauck-Lawson and Jonathan Deutsch, eds.
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Gravesend, Brooklyn: Then and Now
by Joseph Ditta
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Harlem vs. Columbia University: Black Student Power in the Late 1960s
by Stefan M. Bradley
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Here is New York
by E. B. White
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Life on the Lower East Side: Photographs by Rebecca Lepkoff, 1937-1950
by Rebecca Lepkoff, Suzanne Wasserman, Peter Dans
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Manhattan Projects: The Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New York
by Samuel Zipp
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Nearest Thing to Heaven: The Empire State Building and American Dreams
by Mark Kingwell
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New York City Trees: A Field Guide for the Metropolitan Area
by Edward Sibley Barnard
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On the Town: One Hundred Years of Spectacle in Times Square
by Marshall Berman
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On the Wall: Four Decades of Community Murals in NYC
by Janet Braun-Reinitz and Jane Weissman
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Other People’s Money: Inside the Housing Crisis and the Demise of the Greatest Real Estate Deal Ever Made
by Charles Bagli
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The City’s End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York’s Destruction
by Max Page
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