Harlem

“An exquisitely detailed account of the 400-year history of Harlem.” — Booklist , starred review Harlem is perhaps the most famous, iconic neighborhood in the United States. A bastion of freedom and the capital of Black America, Harlem’s twentieth-century renaissance changed our arts, culture, and politics forever. But this is only one of the many chapters in a wonderfully rich and varied history. In Harlem , historian Jonathan Gill presents the first complete chronicle of this remarkable place.