Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
"Like the city it celebrates, Gotham is massive and endlessly fascinating. This narrative of well over 1,000 pages ... copiously chronicles New York City from the primeval days of the Lenape Indians to the era when, with Teddy Roosevelt as police commissioner, the great American city became regarded as 'Capital of the World.'" (1998)

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