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Bloomsbury presents The New Yorkers by Sam Roberts read by Jamie Renell

Longlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize in Nonfiction

From awardwinning New York Times reporter Sam Roberts the story of the worlds most exceptional city told through 31 littleknown yet pivotal inhabitants who helped define it

In Sam Robertss pulsating history of the worlds most exceptional metropolis greet the city anew through thirtyone unique New Yorkers youve probably never heard ofjust in time for the citys 400th birthday

The New Yorkers introduces the first woman to appear nude in a motion picture becoming the face of Civic Fame as Miss Manhattan the couple whose soire 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 citys 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

Some 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 Yorks uncombed history The New Yorkers is a living biography of the worlds greatest city and no one knows New York better than Sam Robertsor is better at bringing its history to life