Told brilliantly, even unforgettably ... -- Timothy Egan, best-selling author of The Immortal Irishman.
Bold, exhaustive, always surprising, Anbinder\'s book is a wonderful reminder of how we came to be who we are.
A masterful achievement, City of Dreams is the definitive account of the American origin story, as told through our premier metropolis.
In so many ways, today\'s immigrants are just like those who came to America in centuries past--and their stories have never before been told with such breadth of scope, lavish research, and resounding spirit.
Over ten years in the making, Tyler Anbinder\'s story is one of innovators and artists, revolutionaries and rioters, staggering deprivation and soaring triumphs.
City of Dreams is the long-overdue, inspiring, and defining account of New York\'s immigrants, both famous and forgotten: the young man from the Caribbean who relocated to New York and became a founding father
Russian-born Emma Goldman, who condoned the murder of American industrialists as a means of aiding downtrodden workers
Dominican Immigrant Oscar de la Renta, who dressed first ladies from Jackie Kennedy to Michelle Obama.
Growing from Peter Minuit\'s tiny settlement of 1626 to a clamorous metropolis with more than three million immigrants today, the City has always been a magnet for transplants from all over the globe. -- New York Times Book Review New York has been America\'s City of immigrants for nearly four centuries. -- Boston Globe A richly textured guide to the History of our Immigrant nation\'s pinnacle Immigrant City has managed to enter the stage during an election season that has resurrected this historically fraught topic in all its fierceness.
An American story, one that belongs to all of us.
Told brilliantly, even unforgettably ..
