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The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That
Shaped America [Unabridged Recording]
By Russell Shorto


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Drawing on 17th-century Dutch records of New Netherland and its capital, Manhattan, translated by scholar Charles
Gehring only in recent decades, Shorto brings to exuberant life the human drama behind the skimpy legend starting with
the colony's founding in 1623. Most Americans know little about Dutch Manhattan beyond its first director, Peter Minuit,
who made the infamous $24 deal with the Indians, and Peter Stuyvesant, the stern governor who lost the island to the
English in 1664. These two seminal figures receive their due here, along with a huge cast of equally fascinating
characters. But Shorto has a more ambitious agenda: to argue for the huge debt Americans owe to the culture of Dutch
Manhattan, the first place in the New World where men and women of different races and creeds lived in relative harmony.
The petitions of the colony's citizens for greater autonomy, penned by Dutch-trained lawyer Adriaen van der Donck,
represented "one of the earliest expressions of modern political impulses: an insistence by the members of the
community that they play a role in their own government." While not discounting the British role in the shaping of
American society, the author argues persuasively for the Dutch origins of some of our most cherished beliefs and their
roots in "the tolerance debates in Holland" and "the intellectual world of Descartes, Grotius, and
Spinoza." Shorto's gracefully written historical account is a must-read for anyone interested in this nation's
origins.

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As the song goes, "Even Old New York was once New Amsterdam."
Unfortunately, for many Americans, that is the limit of their knowledge about the Dutch colony that was seized by the
English in 1664. Shorto, author of two previous books and articles published in the New Yorker and the New York Times
Magazine, presents an outstanding and revealing chronicle of the Dutch presence on Manhattan Island. Much of his
research is based on recently translated Dutch primary sources that have languished in archives in Albany. Written in
elegant prose, this enthralling story provides original perspectives on several historical figures, including Henry
Hudson, Peter Minuit, and Peter Stuyvesant. Shorto also highlights the contributions of Andriaen van der Donck, an
energetic, charismatic man who played an integral part in creating a dynamic, diverse, and tolerant society that appears
refreshing when compared to the neighboring Puritan-dominated colony in Massachusetts. This is an important work.


                                                             

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