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Old 04-03-2013, 03:49 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by crich70 View Post
How about "A history of New York" by Diedrich Knickerbocker?
Are you thinking of Washington Irving's A History of New York by Diedrich Knickerbocker. That was a hoax by a fictitious author. Anyway, it was published a couple of hundred year ago. (But it's still worth reading, if you can find it.)

Or is there a more recent book with that name?

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