New York Burning

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • ANISFIELD-WOLF AWARD WINNER • A revelatory study of the ways in which slavery both destabilized and created American politics. “Vivid and provocative; [Lepore] evokes eighteenth-century New York in all its moral and physical messiness.” — The New Yorker “A historical study that is both intellectually rigorous and broadly accessible. . . . The type of book that we need to read and historians need to write, more often.” — Newsday In New York Burning , Bancroft Prize-winni