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    Russell Anthony Shorto (born February 8, 1959) is an American author, historian, and journalist who is best known for his book on the Dutch origins of...
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  • Shorto as a surname could refer to: Russell Shorto (b. 1959), American author and journalist. Harry Leonard Shorto (1919-1995), academic scholar of Austroasiatic...
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  • Mob is a 2021 memoir by Russell Shorto that examines his family's involvement in organized crime. The book centers on Shorto's grandfather, Russ, son of...
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    that could happen, Francine died of scarlet fever at the age of five. Russell Shorto postulated that the experience of fatherhood and losing a child formed...
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  • That Shaped America is a 2005 non-fiction book by American journalist Russell Shorto that examines Manhattan under Dutch colonial rule, when the territory...
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    Family and the Mob, by Russell Shorto, is the story of organized crime in and around Johnstown, and the connections Shorto's family had to the American...
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  • Verhulst's deputy Shorto, 2004, p. 44 "Willem Verhulst", New Netherland Institute Goodwin, 1897, pp. 239-240 Shorton, 2004, p.49 Russell Shorto (2004) The Island...
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    Retrieved August 1, 2013. "Willem Kieft". www.newnetherlandinstitute.org. Russell Shorto, The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan...
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    Budapest, Hungary. It was painted as oil on panel. According to author Russell Shorto, the painting was "a sly blessing" on "hedge sermons" given by Calvinist...
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    dysfunctional trading post by the English who later acquired it from the Dutch, Russell Shorto, author of The Island at the Center of the World, suggests that the...
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