Brooklyn!

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"This is the best history of my hometown I've ever read. Brooklyn is a very special place and Ellen Snyder-Grenier has captured it all. A great work!" --Larry King "More than just a history of Brooklyn, this fascinating and comprehensive portrait of one of the most diverse urban areas in the world is a commentary on the growth of America and the immigrant vision. ...This is a commendable effort, one of those unusual hybrids that works as a history and as a gift book." --Publishers Weekly, starred review "It's been famously said that only the dead know Brooklyn, but those seeking a less extreme path to knowledge will find this exemplary book to be just what is needed. Thorough and detailed without being stuffy, it covers the borough by focusing on five of its most significant totems...Knowledgeable Brooklynites will appreciate the book's accurate references to such borough traditions as skelly (a street game) and the spaldeen (a small pink ball used in street games), while even those who have never been east of the Continental Divide will enjoy the enormous number of carefully chosen black-and-white and color illustrations." --Kenneth Turan, The Los Angeles Times "This volume is a wonderful guide explaining Brooklyn's rich and colorful history, its developing neighborhoods and economic cycles. Using prints, paintings and pictures from the collection of the Brooklyn Historical Society, Snyder-Grenier lovingly melds legend and fact." --Patrick H. Samway, America "From the Puerto Rican diaspora of the early 1900s to the migration of African Americans from the tormented South, to the massive immigration of Eastern Europeans, Brooklyn! An Illustrated History is an intriguing and comprehensive depiction of the patchwork metropolis we affectionately call 'Brooklyn.'" --Congresswoman Nydia M. Velazquez, 12th District, New York "To have played a small role in the history of the wonderful borough of Brooklyn makes me very proud. This book increases that pride greatly." --Clem Labine, former Brooklyn Dodger "This book is about the real Brooklyn and all the values that are in that culture where I played baseball and where I raised my kids." --Carl Erskine, former Brooklyn Dodger "Ellen Snyder-Grenier deserves our gratitude for bringing to a larger audience so many of the treasures of The Brooklyn Historical Society and for preserving for posterity the imaginative and popular exhibition that adorned its walls in the last years of the twentieth century. But she has done even more, giving us nothing less than an interpretation of all of Brooklyn's long and eventful history. Her readers are in for a treat." --Kenneth T. Jackson, Barzun Professor of History and the Social Sciences, Columbia University, editor of The Encyclopedia of New York City "Snyder-Grenier has accomplished a difficult feat. She has written an excellent book, useful to a general audience as well as both public and academic historians. This book is well researched and accessible... a good popular social history, exposing both Brooklyn's triumphs and tragedies." --The Public Historian