City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York

Name: City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York
Author: Tyler Anbinder
ISBN: 9780544103856

Tyler Anbinder

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City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York

Tyler Anbinder

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This sweeping history of New York's millions of immigrants, both famous and forgotten, is the story of the peoples who have come to New York for four centuries: an American story of millions of immigrants, hundreds of languages, and one great city. Growing from Peter Minuit's tiny settlement of 1626 to a clamorous metropolis with more than three million immigrants today, the city has always been a magnet for transplants from around the globe. City of Dreams is the long-overdue, inspiring, and defining account of the young man from the Caribbean who relocated to New York and became a founding father; Russian-born Emma Goldman, who condoned the murder of American industrialists as a means of aiding downtrodden workers; Dominican immigrant Oscar de la Renta, who dressed first ladies from Jackie Kennedy to Michelle Obama; and so many more. Over ten years in the making, Tyler Anbinder's story is one of innovators and artists, revolutionaries and rioters, staggering deprivation and soaring triumphs. In so many ways, today's immigrants are just like those who came to America in centuries past—and their stories have never before been told with such breadth of scope, lavish research, and resounding spirit.

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