Manhattan Zijn*Story

I’m reading a great book on the early history of Manhattan:  The Island at the Center of the World, by Russell Shorto.  It is well written and a page turner…yes, a page turner.  I’m not sure I’ve read an historical page turner before.  What I find fascinating is how the winners write history.  Most people, including myself, have little knowledge of the Dutch influences on our present day Gotham; the English did a good job of minimizing their story.  Shorto sets the record straight with zijn (Dutch for his) revisionist tale.


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