Reddit reviews The Island at the Center of the World

He is absolutely right. I highly, highly recommend this book on the history of Dutch New Amsterdam and its many influences on American culture and politics.

https://www.amazon.com/Island-at-Center-World-ebook/dp/B000FCK2Z6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1503297955&sr=8-1&keywords=island+at+the+center+of+the+world

You're very welcome!

Normally, I would list these books in addition to a small description and reasons why I found them particularly interesting or engaging. However, it’s getting a bit late, so I’m just going to give you a list of some books that I particularly recommend. I should have some time later this afternoon to talk about them more in depth, and to answer any questions that you might have.

• Automats, Taxi Dances, and Vaudeville: Excavating Manhattan’s Lost Places of Leisure by David Freeland
  
• The Measure of Manhattan: The Tumultuous Career and Surprising Legacy of John Randel, Jr., Cartographer, Surveyor, Inventor by Marguerite Holloway
  
• Conquering Gotham: Building Penn Station and Its Tunnels by Jill Jonnes
  
• City on a Grid: How New York Became New York by Gerard Koeppel
  
• New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan by Jill Lepore
  
• The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough
  
• Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City by Catherine McNeur
  
• Native New Yorkers: The Legacy of the Algonquin People of New York by Evan T. Pritchard
  
• Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and The Forgotten Colony that Shaped America by Russell Shorto
  
• Hell's Kitchen and the Battle for Urban Space: Class Struggle and Progressive Reform in New York City, 1894-1914 by Joseph Varga