New York: Edward RutherfurdThe story of New York begins as a tiny Indian fishing village and the arrival of Dutch merchants and aristocratic British merchants and settlers, the Revolutionary War, the emergence of the city as a great trading and financial center, the convulsions of the Civil War, the excesses of the Gilded Age, the explosion of immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the trials of World War II, the near demise of New York in the 1970s