New York Burning Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan

A fascinating social and political history.
The New York Times Book Review

Vivid and provocative; [Lepore] evokes eighteenth-century New York in all its moral and physical messiness.
The New Yorker

A vivid and convincing account of the plot and its aftermath. . . . [A] sober, meticulous, balanced book.
The Washington Post Book World

A historical study that is both intellectually rigorous and broadly accessible. . . . The type of book that we need to read and historians need to write, more often.
Newsday

[Lepore] brings this terrifying period vividly to life. . . . A gripping read that shows how quickly fear spread through a city resting upon a terrible imbalance.
Newark Star-Ledger

"The most vivid and telling description of life and death in a colonial seaport yet produced by a historian. With a lacerating attention to detail, Lepore reveals the tragedies endured and inflicted in a colonial society that combined freedom and slavery in crowded towns of stark cruelty and vaunting ambitions."
The New Republic