New York Intellect: A History of Intellectual Life in New York City, from 1750 to the Beginnings of Our Own Time by Thomas Bender
New York Intellect: A History of Intellectual Life in New York City, from 1750 to the Beginnings of Our Own Time
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Thomas Bender

New York Intellect: A History of Intellectual Life in New York City, from 1750 to the Beginnings of Our Own Time

Thomas Bender

445 pages • first pub 1987 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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A major social history of the intellectual life of New York City - the story of how, over three centuries, a minor colonial settlement became the capital of modern thought. From the eighteenth century on, New Yorkers have struggled to create new k...

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