@book {9875,
	title = {New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan},
	year = {2005},
	note = {Pulitzer Prize Finalist {\textquotedblleft}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.{\textquotedblright}{\textemdash}The New Republic {\textquotedblleft}A fascinating social and political history.{\textquotedblright}--The New York Times Book Review {\textquotedblleft}Vivid and provocative; [Lepore] evokes eighteenth-century New York in all its moral and physical messiness.{\textquotedblright}--The New Yorker {\textquotedblleft}A vivid and convincing account {\textellipsis}. A sober, meticulous book.{\textquotedblright}--The Washington Post Book World {\textquotedblleft}A historical study that is both intellectually rigorous and broadly accessible. {\textellipsis} The type of book that we need to read and historians need to write, more often.{\textquotedblright}--Newsday {\textquotedblleft}A reconstruction at once factually rigorous and brilliantly imaginative.{\textquotedblright}--The New York Sun {\textquotedblleft}Remarkable. {\textellipsis} Lepore mixes in legal, political, religious and literary information. {\textellipsis} A tour de force.{\textquotedblright}--The Winston-Salem Journal {\textquotedblleft}Riveting.{\textquotedblright}--Publishers Weekly (starred review) {\textquotedblleft}Lepore brings this terrifying period vividly to life. {\textellipsis} A gripping read.{\textquotedblright}--The Star-Ledger (Newark) {\textquotedblleft}A stellar performance.{\textquotedblright}--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.},
	publisher = {Knopf},
	organization = {Knopf},
	address = {New York},
	url = {http://www.amazon.com/New-York-Burning-Conspiracy-Eighteenth-Century/dp/1400032261/ref=pd_sim_b_2},
	author = {J Lepore}
}
