It was also published in Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and Brazil, and has received international acclaim. The Island at the Center of the World was a bestseller in the U.S. (Hint on the outcome: neither man got his wish, but both ended up influencing American history in startling and profound ways.) I’m a strong believer in the idea that meaning is best conveyed via narrative, which means focusing on individuals and their struggles, and the story I tell centers on two men and their very different ideas about what the wilderness island called Manhattan might become. The argument is that the Dutch founding of Manhattan - and of the colony of New Netherland, which extended across the whole Middle Atlantic region - seeded not only New York’s immigrant culture, but America’s melting pot. The Island at the Center of the World is a narrative history of Manhattan’s founding.
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