{"product_id":"new-yorkbooks","title":"New York","description":"A brilliant mix of battle, romance, family struggles, and personal triumphs, \u003cb\u003eNew York\u003c\/b\u003e gloriously captures the search for freedom and prosperity at the heart of America's history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA blockbuster masterpiece that combines breath-taking scope with narrative immediacy, this grand historical epic traces the history of New York through the lenses of several families: The Van Dycks, a wealthy Dutch trading family; the Masters, scions of an English merchant clan torn apart during the Revolution; the Hudsons, slaves who fight for their freedom over several generations; the Murphys, who escape the Famine in Ireland and land in the chaotic slum of Five Points; the Rewards, robber barons of the Gilded Age; the Florinos, an immigrant Italian clan who work building the great skyscrapers in the 1920s; and the Rabinowitzs, who flee anti-semitism in Europe and build a new life in Brooklyn.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver time, the lives of these families become intertwined through the most momentous events in the fabric of America: The founding of the colonies; the Revolution; the growth of New York as a major port and trading centre; the Civil War; the Gilded Age; the explosion of immigration and the corruption of Tammany Hall; the rise of New York as a great world city in the early 20th-century; the trials of World War II, the tumult of the 1960s; the near-demise of the city in the 1970s; its roaring rebirth in the 1990s; culminating in the World Trade Center attacks at the beginning of the new century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York\u003c\/b\u003e is the book that Rutherfurd's fans have been waiting for.","brand":"Rutherfurd, Edward","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Adult Fiction)","offer_id":33692254011528,"sku":"","price":13.75,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Hardback (Adult Fiction)","offer_id":44501960327392,"sku":"","price":19.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/products\/BNCImageAPI_c0218fa0-bfd5-467d-bb3b-97c44bbd631d.jpg?v=1757165569","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/new-yorkbooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}