The Battery: The story of the adventurers, artists, statesmen, grafters, songsters, mariners, pirates, guzzlers, indians, thieves, stuffed-shirts, turn-coats, millionaires, inventors, poets, heroes, soldiers, harlots, bootlicks, nobles, nonentities, bu...

by Rodman Gilder

The story of the adventurers, artists, statesmen, grafters, songsters, mariners, pirates, guzzlers, Indians, thieves, stuffed-shirts, turn-coats, millionaires, inventors, poets, heroes, soldiers, harlots, bootlicks, nobles, nonentities, burghers, martyrs, and murderers who played their parts during four full centuries on Manhattan Island's tip.

304 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1936