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Success of the Mark T. Langum, Sr., Award in American Historic Fiction Named among the finest books of the entire year by The Washington Post and “Required Reading” by the Brand New York PostEdward Rutherfurd remembers America’s biggest town in a rich, engrossing tale, weaving together stories of households rich and poor, native born and immigrant—a throw of imaginary and accurate heroes whose fates rise and fall and rise again using the city’s prospects. Out of this personal viewpoint we observe New York’s simple origins as a little Indian fishing town, the appearance of Dutch and British retailers, the Revolutionary War, the beginning of the town as an excellent trading and financial center, the convulsions of the Civil War, the excesses of the Gilded Age, the surge of immigration in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the tests of World War II, the near death of New York in the 1970s and its roaring revival in the 1990s, and the assault on the World Trade Center. A stirring mixture of fight, love, family challenges, and individual triumphs, Ny: The Book gloriously catches the look for opportunity and independence in the centre of our nation’s background.