Book Review: The New Yorkers

The New Yorkers

31 Remarkable People, 400 Years, and the Untold Biography of the World’s Greatest City

by Sam Roberts

Pub Date 25 Oct 2022

Bloomsbury USA, Bloomsbury Publishing

Biographies & Memoirs | History | Nonfiction (Adult)

I am reviewing a copy of The New Yorkers through Bloomsbury USA and Netgalley:

Sam Roberts has a pulsating history of the world’s most exceptional metropolis, greet the city anew through thirty-one unique New Yorkers you’ve probably never heard of-just in time for the city’s 400th birthday.

Sam Roberts introduces the first woman to appear nude in a motion picture, becoming the face of Civic Fame as Miss Manhattan; couple whose soirée ended the Gilded Age with an embarrassing bang; and the husband and wife who invented the modern celebrity talk show. The book also reveals New York’s first recorded murder in the seventeenth century as well as the high school drop out who slashed New York’s crime rates in the twentieth century. 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.