Description
This is an updated edition of Abrams' enormously popular history of Long Island. New York, which has sold more than 65,000 copies since it was published in 1983. Still the only book of its kind, Long Island begins with the geologic formation of the island and cakes its story up to the present day. The authoritative text has been augmented with a substantial new chapter on the postwar period. There arc more than 300 illustrations, including photographs, paintings, and drawings. The lively narrative covers Native Americans and Dutch and English settlers, the American Revolution, the Roaring Twenties, and the amazing growth of suburbs and resorts since World War II. The lively cast includes farmers, whalers, builder artists and scientist, not to mention Nathan Hale, Walt Whitman, John Jacob Astor, Irving Berlin, Jackson Pollock, Billy Joel, and Jerry Scinfeld, to name just a few of those who call Long Island home
