{"product_id":"the-great-mistake-jonathan-lee-9780593081013","title":"The Great Mistake","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn exultant novel of New York City at the turn of the twentieth century, about one man's rise to fame and fortune, and his mysterious murder--\"engrossing\" (\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e), \"immersive\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e), and \"seriously entertaining\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times, \u003c\/i\u003e London).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAndrew Haswell Green is dead, shot at the venerable age of eighty-three, when he thought life could hold no more surprises. The killing--on Park Avenue in broad daylight, on Friday the thirteenth--shook the city. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorn to a struggling farmer, Green was a self-made man without whom there would be no Central Park, no Metropolitan Museum of Art, no Museum of Natural History, no New York Public Library. But Green had a secret, a life locked within him that now, in the hour of his death, may finally break free. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA work of tremendous depth and piercing emotion, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Mistake \u003c\/i\u003eis the story of a city transformed, a murder that made a private man infamous, and a portrait of a singular individual who found the world closed off to him--yet enlarged it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonathan Lee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0593081013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593081013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/17\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/03\/2022","brand":"Jonathan Lee","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43992751472895,"sku":"9780593081013","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_eea08a70-2ca0-4060-8da9-3e11ad9a1862.jpg?v=1683320583","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-great-mistake-jonathan-lee-9780593081013","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}