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Index
Cover
About the Author
Title page
Copyright
Preface
Contents
1 Manhattan Is Discovered
2 First Settlers Arrive
3 Peter Stuyvesant Takes Command
4 The English Name It New York
5 The Leisler Rebellion
6 Pirates Infest New York
7 Of Queesting and Fribbles
8 The Peter Zenger Trial
9 The City Goes Mad
10 Duel for Empire
11 The Stamp Act Rebellion
12 Revolutionary War
13 The Doctors’ Riot
14 The Capital of the Nation
15 The Hamilton-Burr Duel
16 John Jacob Astor Fools the President
17 Sawing Off Manhattan Island
18 The Gangs of New York
19 Down With Foreigners!
20 The Astor Place Riot
21 Slavery and Abolitionism
22 The Police Riot
23 Abraham Lincoln Arrives
24 The Draft Riots
25 Confederates Try to Burn Down New York
26 The Tweed Scandals
27 Thomas Edison Lights the City
28 Building Brooklyn Bridge
29 Metropolitan Opera House Opens
30 Creation of the Statue of Liberty
31 The Blizzard of 1888
32 New York’s First Skyscraper
33 Ellis Island Opens
34 The Reverend Parkhurst Samples Vice
35 Hearst Wages War
36 Creation of Greater New York
37 Opening of the Twentieth Century
38 The General Slocum Disaster
39 Colonel House and Woodrow Wilson
40 The Triangle Fire
41 The League of Nations Opens on Broadway
42 Wall Street Is Bombed
43 The Wall Street Crash
44 The Great Depression
45 The Jimmy Walker Scandals
46 Fiorello LaGuardia Becomes Mayor
47 Nazis Plan to Bomb New York
48 William O’Dwyer Sweats
49 Robert F. Wagner’s Administration
50 “This City Is the Center of the Universe”
Selected Bibliography
Index
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