Get Lit: 'The Great Mistake' by Jonathan Lee

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Sep 24, 2021

We air highlights from our September "Get Lit with All Of It" book club event with Jonathan Lee about his novel, The Great Mistake, which centers on the life and murder of Andrew Haswell Green, one of the power brokers of New York City, central to the creation of Central Park, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Natural History, and our partners, the New York Public Library.

 

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