Four Streets and a Square: A History of Manhattan and the New York Idea (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780763651374)

From a Sibert Medalist comes the epic story of Manhattan--a magical, maddening island "for all" and a microcosm of America.

A veteran nonfiction storyteller dives deep into the four-hundred-year history of Manhattan to map the island's unexpected intersections. Focusing on the evolution of four streets and a square (Wall Street, 42nd Street, West 4th Street, 125th Street, and Union Square) Marc Aronson explores how new ideas and forms of art evolved from social blending. Centuries of conflict--among original Americans and Europeans, slavers and the enslaved, rich and poor, immigrants and native-born--produced segregation, oppression, and violence, but also new ways of speaking, singing, and being American. From the Harlem Renaissance to Hammerstein, from gay pride in the Village to political clashes at Tammany Hall, this clear-eyed pageant of the island's joys and struggles--enhanced with photos and drawings, multimedia links to music and film, and an extensive bibliography and source notes--is, above all, a love song to Manhattan's triumphs.

Author: Marc Aronson
ISBN-10: 0763651370
ISBN-13: 9780763651374
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Language: English
Published: 12/03/2021
Pages: 440
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.70lbs
Size: 9.30h x 7.50w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2021
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 11/01/2021
Publishers Weekly 10/11/2021
Horn Book Magazine 11/01/2021 pg. 124
Booklist 11/01/2021 pg. 50
School Library Journal 12/01/2021 pg. 115
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2021 - Superior,Well Above Average