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From a Sibert Medalist comes the epic story of Manhattana magical, maddening island for all and a microcosm of America.
A veteran nonfiction storyteller dives deep into the four-hundred-year history of Manhattan to map the islands unexpected intersections. Focusing on the evolution of four streets and a square (Wall Street, 42nd Street, West 4th Street, 125th Street, and Union Square) Marc Aronson explores how new ideas and forms of art evolved from social blending. Centuries of conflictamong original Americans and Europeans, slavers and the enslaved, rich and poor, immigrants and native-bornproduced segregation, oppression, and violence, but also new ways of speaking, singing, and being American. From the Harlem Renaissance to Hammerstein, from gay pride in the Village to political clashes at Tammany Hall, this clear-eyed pageant of the islands joys and strugglesenhanced with photos and drawings, multimedia links to music and film, and an extensive bibliography and source notesis, above all, a love song to Manhattans triumphs.
Author: Marc Aronson
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Published: 12/03/2021
Pages: 440
Weight: 2.7lbs
Size: 9.30h x 7.50w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780763651374
Language: English
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