<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>6</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">J Lepore</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">New York Burning:  Liberty, Slavery and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan</style></title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2005</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.amazon.com/New-York-Burning-Conspiracy-Eighteenth-Century/dp/1400032261/ref=pd_sim_b_2</style></url></web-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Knopf</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">New York</style></pub-location><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pulitzer Prize Finalist

“The most vivid and telling description of life and death in a colonial seaport yet produced by a historian.  With a lacerating attention to detail, Lepore reveals the tragedies endured and inflicted in a colonial society that combined freedom and slavery in crowded towns of stark cruelty and vaunting ambitions.”—The New Republic

“A fascinating social and political history.”--The New York Times Book Review

“Vivid and provocative; [Lepore] evokes eighteenth-century New York in all its moral and physical messiness.”--The New Yorker

“A vivid and convincing account ….  A sober, meticulous book.”--The Washington Post Book World

“A historical study that is both intellectually rigorous and broadly accessible. …  The type of book that we need to read and historians need to write, more often.”--Newsday

“A reconstruction at once factually rigorous and brilliantly imaginative.”--The New York Sun

“Remarkable. …  Lepore mixes in legal, political, religious and literary information. … A tour de force.”--The Winston-Salem Journal

“Riveting.”--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Lepore brings this terrifying period vividly to life. …  A gripping read.”--The Star-Ledger (Newark)

“A stellar performance.”--Booklist (starred review)

Anisfield Wolf Award for Non-Fiction; Book of the Year, New York City Book Awards; ALA Notable Book; Book of the Month Club and the History Book Club. Audio:  Highbridge Audio, 2005; Vintage, 2006.  </style></notes></record></records></xml>