This NOT-COOLGROVE title is included in our bookstore because it is critically informative about NYC politics during the Civil War years illuminated by a wide variety of who\u2019s who and what influencers, progressives and reactionaries, what they were thinking and doing during that fraught period. City of Sedition<\/em> satisfies greatly on that front especially for us residents of NYC. Having lived here continuously since 1969, before I read this book, I did not really understand the context of Martin Scorsese\u2019s Gangs of NY<\/em>, \u2018the riots\u2019, old movies about the tribal\/political turf wars between Wasps, Irish, Italian and other immigrants and free Blacks\u2019 communities. Scenes of NYC then ( slave ownership was abolished in 1927) with Southern slave owners vacationing in NYC going shopping or to the theater with their African slaves in tow, in full view of free blacks and poor whites makes for stark imagery and bring to light the sur-reality of that world. The business communities and Wall Street were invested deeply in the institution of Slavery and the Atlantic Slave Trade itself which both started growing exponentially after the invention and implementation of cotton ginneries\u2014 humming away upriver in Hudson, NY, with the tons of cotton shipped upriver as fast as possible. This book is a great reference book for that period with lots of leads to more depth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hope to see you in September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" John Strausbaugh \u2022 isbn: 9781455584185 This NOT-COOLGROVE title is included in our bookstore because it is critically informative about NYC politics during the Civil War years illuminated by a wide […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,68,95,241,237,87,243],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-books-by","category-featured","category-history","category-john-strausbaugh","category-non-fiction","category-not-cool-grove-press","post-design-default"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coolgrove.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/CITY-OF-SEDITION-PRODUCT-SHOT.jpg?fit=246%2C246&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wWvk-2mh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coolgrove.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coolgrove.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coolgrove.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coolgrove.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coolgrove.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9069"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/coolgrove.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9085,"href":"https:\/\/coolgrove.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9069\/revisions\/9085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coolgrove.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coolgrove.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coolgrove.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coolgrove.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} Now this book goes LIVE for four days,
every Wednesday starting September 6th, (90 minutes each day) in an exclusive Zoom presentation of
The City of Sedition<\/em> by it\u2019s author JOHN STRAUSBAUGH in person.
Here in his own words: <\/h5>\n\n\n\nComing up in September: My \u201cCity of Sedition\u201d Zoom course for the Gotham Center, about New York City during the Civil War.\u00a0My take on a fraught period in history that resonates in surprising ways with what\u2019s happening today. Four Wednesday evenings starting September 6. All recorded, so if you miss any you can watch at your convenience. It\u2019s based on my book of the same name, described by a reviewer as\u00a0 \u201cA RICH FEAST OF OUTRAGEOUS INCIDENTS, LARGER-THAN-LIFE CHARACTERS, AND OFTEN ASTONISHING REVELATIONS.\u201d\u00a0<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Sign up and be counted. Here\u2019s more information and the registration button.\u00a0<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n