{"product_id":"9781493008407","title":"Footprints in New York: Tracing the Lives of Four Centuries of New Yorkers","description":"\u003cp\u003eNYC tour guides and authors James and Michelle Nevius explore the lives of 20 iconic New Yorkers—from Dutch governor Peter Stuyvesant to  Alexander Hamilton, park architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux to JP Morgan and John D. Rockefeller, Jr.—and use them to guide the reader through four centuries of the city’s story. Beginning with the oldest standing building in the city, , a 1652 farmhouse in Brooklyn, and journeying all the way to the rebuilding of the World Trade Center, the book follows in the footsteps of these iconic New Yorkers. The authors tell the stories of everyone from slave traders and long-forgotten politicians to the movers and shakers of Gilded Age society and the Greenwich Village folk scene. One part history and one part personal narrative, \u003cb\u003eFootprints in New York\u003c\/b\u003e creates a different way of looking at the past, exploring new connections and forgotten chapters in the story of America’s greatest metropolis. \u003cbr\u003eVisit www.footprintsinny.com for more.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield Publishers, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47182682325232,"sku":"9781493008407","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781493008407_p0.jpg?v=1769894973","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781493008407","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}