Russell Shorto - Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events that Created New York and Shaped America

A Book with Legs

Smead Capital Management

Investing, Business, Management

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🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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In this episode, Cole Smead speaks with author and historian Russell Shorto about his latest book, ”Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events that Created New York and Shaped America,” discussing the birth of New York City, originally a Dutch-controlled settlement called New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island, until English takeover. Their conversation explores this pivotal transfer of power, and the key figures involved, explaining how it shaped the future of New York and the American identity.

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0:00.0	You're listening to A Book with Legs, a podcast presented by Smead Capital Management.
0:07.9	At Smead Capital Management, we advise investors who play the long game.
0:12.3	You can learn more at Smeadcap.com or by calling your financial advisor.
0:23.2	Welcome to a book with Legs podcast.
0:27.3	I'm Cole Smead, CEO and portfolio manager here at Smead Capital Management.
0:32.9	At our firm, we are readers, and we believe in the power of books to help shaped informed investors.
0:36.1	In this podcast, we speak to great authors about their writings.
0:40.1	The late great Charlie Munger prescribed using multiple mental models and analysis.
0:44.7	We analyze their work through the blends of business, markets, and people.
0:54.4	In this episode, we will discuss the melding cultures and circumstances that created one of the greatest entrepreneurial and risk-taking centers, really of the world.
1:00.3	Russell Shorto is joining us to discuss his newest book, Taking Manhattan, the extraordinary events that created New York and Shaped America.
1:03.2	To teach our listeners a little bit about Russell, he is the director of the new Amsterdam
1:07.3	project at the New York Historical Society and also senior scholar at the New
1:13.0	Netherland Institute. He has published numerous other titles. He was also knighted by the Dutch
1:19.5	government for his work on Dutch American history. I would add he's also a member of the New York
1:25.1	State Writers Hall of Fame. Russell, thank you for joining me today.
1:29.5	Cole, I'm happy to be with you.
1:31.5	Yeah, this is a fun work.
1:33.0	Obviously, I work in the investment business, so, you know, the story of New York and things
1:37.4	like the Buttonwood Agreement are really near and dear to my heart.
1:41.5	And you have an extensive amount of work that you've done, obviously, in this area.
1:47.8	You obviously have multiple other titles that I touched on. But what caused you to write this story
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