New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan

JILL LEPORE is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her books include the New York Times best seller The Secret History of Wonder Woman and Book of Ages, a finalist for the National Book Award. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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 of the plot and its aftermath. . . . [A] sober, meticulous, balanced 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

[Lepore] brings this terrifying period vividly to life. . . . A gripping read that shows how quickly fear spread through a city resting upon a terrible imbalance. Newark Star-Ledger

"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 teh tragedies endured and inflicted in a colonial society that combined freedom and slavery in crowded towns of start cruelty and vaunting ambitions."   The New Republic