Album artwork for Radical Walking Tours of New York City by Bruce Kayton

Too often, tours of New York City are paeans to power--extolling the fabled New York skyline and the robber barrons whose wealth built it up, praising the marvels of a city built largely on finance.

But New York has also, since its founding, been a city of struggle, a place where workers lived, created wealth, and spun out the rich cultural tapestry that has put the small island of Manhattan at the very center of the world's imagination. It is a city of proletarian uprising, of abolitionist rebellion, of civil rights demonstrations, and radical futures.

This is Bruce Kayton's New York, the town of Emma Goldman and Langston Hughes, of Margaret Sanger and John Reed, of demonstrations and shootouts, of community gardens and marches.

Bruce Kayton

Radical Walking Tours of New York City

Seven Stories Press
Album artwork for Radical Walking Tours of New York City by Bruce Kayton
Paperback

$16.95

Paperback

Released 09/16/2016Catalog Number

9781609806897

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Bruce Kayton

Radical Walking Tours of New York City

Seven Stories Press
Album artwork for Radical Walking Tours of New York City by Bruce Kayton
Paperback

$16.95

Paperback

Released 09/16/2016Catalog Number

9781609806897

Learn more

Too often, tours of New York City are paeans to power--extolling the fabled New York skyline and the robber barrons whose wealth built it up, praising the marvels of a city built largely on finance.

But New York has also, since its founding, been a city of struggle, a place where workers lived, created wealth, and spun out the rich cultural tapestry that has put the small island of Manhattan at the very center of the world's imagination. It is a city of proletarian uprising, of abolitionist rebellion, of civil rights demonstrations, and radical futures.

This is Bruce Kayton's New York, the town of Emma Goldman and Langston Hughes, of Margaret Sanger and John Reed, of demonstrations and shootouts, of community gardens and marches.