New York Burning - by Jill Lepore (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>From the award-winning author of "The Name of War" comes a gripping, illuminating account of an alleged 18th-century slave conspiracy to destroy New York City.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Anisfield-Wolf Award Winner</b> <p/>In <i>New York Burning</i>, <i> </i>Bancroft Prize-winning historian Jill Lepore recounts these dramatic events of 1741, when ten fires blazed across Manhattan and panicked whites suspecting it to be the work a slave uprising went on a rampage. In the end, thirteen black men were burned at the stake, seventeen were hanged and more than one hundred black men and women were thrown into a dungeon beneath City Hall. <br> Even back in the seventeenth century, the city was a rich mosaic of cultures, communities and colors, with slaves making up a full one-fifth of the population. Exploring the political and social climate of the times, Lepore dramatically shows how, in a city rife with state intrigue and terror, the threat of black rebellion united the white political pluralities in a frenzy of racial fear and violence. <p/></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"A fascinating social and political history." --<i>The New York Times Book Review<br></i><br>"Vivid and provocative; [Lepore] evokes eighteenth-century New York in all its moral and physical messiness." --<i>The New Yorker<br></i><br>"A vivid and convincing account of the 'plot' and its aftermath. . . . [A] sober, meticulous, balanced book" --<i>The Washington Post Book World <br></i><br>"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." --<i>Newsday<br></i><br>"[Lepore] brings this terrifying period vividly to life. . . . A gripping read that shows how quickly fear spread through a city resting upon a terrible imbalance." --<i>Newark Star-Ledger<br></i></p><p>The most vivid and telling description of life and death in a colonial seaport yet produced by a historian. With a lacerating attention to detail, Lepore reveals teh tragedies endured and inflicted in a colonial society that combined freedom and slavery in crowded towns of start cruelty and vaunting ambitions. --<i>The New Republic</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>JILL LEPORE</b> is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at <i>The New Yorker. </i>Her books include the <i>New York</i> <i>Times</i> best seller <i>The Secret History of Wonder Woman</i> and <i>Book of Ages, </i>a finalist for the National Book Award. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.</p>
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