Meet the Author: Russell Shorto

Join Russell Shorto, the historian, writer, and thinker who wrote the bestselling book The Island at the Center of the World, detailing the evolution of Dutch Manhattan. The Wall Street Journal called it ​“a masterpiece of storytelling and first-rate intellectual history.”

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Shorto will discuss his latest book, Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America. Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff described the groundbreaking work, writing “New Amsterdam—pluralistic, capitalistic, pulsing with energy—has survived. Best of all, Shorto himself feels everywhere present in these spirited, revelatory pages.”

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