The Hood Library Book of the Week

Among the Hood Library’s recent acquisitions is The New Yorkers:  31 Remarkable People, 400 Years, and the Untold Biography of the World’s Greatest City

Award-winning New York Times reporter Sam Roberts’s pulsating history of the world's most exceptional metropolis depicts the city anew through thirty-one unique New Yorkers you've probably never heard of, just in time for the city's 400th birthday.
The New Yorkers introduces the first woman to appear nude in a motion picture, becoming the face of Civic Fame as Miss Manhattan; the couple whose soirée ended the Gilded Age with an embarrassing bang; and the husband and wife who invented the modern celebrity talk show.  It reveals the victim of the city's first recorded murder in the seventeenth century and the high school dropout who slashed crime rates in the twentieth.  Meet the notorious mobster who was imperiously banished from the city and the woman who successfully sued a bus company for racial discrimination a century before Rosa Parks.