LISTEN: ‘Thou Shall Not Push Your Neighbor Around’

“There’s a quality that all great historians have of being a little prophetic — an ability to identify deep trends in American society and history and then, without claiming to speak for the future, see what might happen.”

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Joel Feingold, the researcher who worked with the late historian Mike Wallace on the final two books of his epic Gotham trilogy, including the newly published Gotham at War, visits Lit NYC to talk with Harry Siegel about what went into making an epic poem of the city weaving accurate history into myth to try and tell nothing less than the story of the whole world.  

In the spirit of the books, it’s a sweeping conversation touching on everything and everyone from Martin Scorsese to Zohran Mamdani; what Robert Caro might have got wrong about Robert Moses; New York’s In Uno Plures (Out of One, Many) correction to the American motto, printed on our currency, of  E Pluribus Unum (Out of Many, One), and much more. 

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