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Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America Garuka Bars but he dreads the darkBy: Russell Shorto Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 2026 05 26 One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2025 The author of The Island at the Center of the World offers up a thrilling narrative of how New Yorkthat brash, bold, archetypal citycame to be. In 1664, England decided to invade the Dutch controlled city of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. Charles II and his brother, the Duke of York, had dreams of empire, and their archrivals,