{"product_id":"9781639733712","title":"The New Yorkers: 31 Remarkable People, 400 Years, and the Untold Biography of the World's Greatest City","description":"Author: Roberts, Sam\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781639733712\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 04 Mar 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 384 Format: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize in Nonfiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom award-winning \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e reporter Sam Roberts, the story of the world's most exceptional city, told through 31 little-known yet pivotal inhabitants who helped define it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorkers\u003c\/i\u003e introduces the first woman to appear nude in a motion picture, becoming the face of Civic Fame as Miss Manhattan; the couple whose soiree 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSome 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. \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorkers\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46636910837918,"sku":"UBD-9781639733712","price":29.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781639733712.jpg?v=1774399477","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781639733712","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}