Russell Shorto: Taking Manhattan

Russell Shorto, Johnstown native and acclaimed author, will come to the Heritage Discovery Center for a book reading for his latest non-fiction book, Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events that Created New York and Shaped America.”  In Taking Manhattan, Russell Shorto explains how New York became the archetypal modern city – brash, bold, pulsing with energy. Bristling with vibrant characters, Taking Manhattan reveals the founding of New York to be an invention, the result of creative negotiations that would blend the multiethnic, capitalistic society of New Amsterdam with the power of the rising English empire.