City of Dreams

The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York

By: Tyler Anbinder

Narrated by: George Guidall

A defining American story, never before told with such breadth of scope, lavish research, and resounding spirit.

With more than three million foreign-born residents today, New York has been America's defining port of entry for nearly four centuries, a magnet for transplants from all over the globe. These migrants have brought their hundreds of languages and distinct cultures to the city, and from there to the entire country. More immigrants have come to New York than all other entry points combined.

City of Dreams is peopled with memorable characters both beloved and unfamiliar, whose lives unfold in rich detail: the young man from the Caribbean who passed through New York on his way to becoming a Founding Father; the 10-year-old Angelo Siciliano from Calabria, who transformed into Charles Atlas, bodybuilder; Dominican-born Oscar de la Renta, whose couture designs have dressed first ladies from Jackie Kennedy to Michelle Obama.

Tyler Anbinder's story is one of innovators and artists, revolutionaries and rioters, staggering deprivation and soaring triumphs, all playing out against the powerful backdrop of New York City, at once ever changing and profoundly, permanently itself. City of Dreams provides a vivid sense of what New York looked like, sounded like, smelled like, and felt like over the centuries of its development and maturation into the city we know today.

©2016 Tyler Anbinder (P)2016 Recorded Books

History viewed from the tenement

I gained a new appreciation for our current society after hearing how our forefathers and families struggled. The narrator is very good.

Great Read!

Aptly titled. Fantastic history of immigration to New York City. Highly recommend this book for anyone interested in this topic.

Great story about immigrants

I loved this book. If you like NYC you will live this book. My only knock, is that the writer appears to have a bit of a political agenda aka anti-Trump immigration policies. That is an irritant and detracts from his fact-based highly informative and entertaining message. Regardless, I highly recommend it.

Excellent Read

One word sums this book Awesome. The depiction of the city was vivid. Every word read, painted a detailed picture almost as if I was there at that momentum time.

The reading is horrible, ruined a good book

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

I've finished more than 30 audible books, this is by far the worst reading, ruined a good book