Download or read book Knickerbocker's History of New York written by Washington Irving and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-27 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knickerbocker's History of New York In 1809, New Yorkers were humming about a group of categorized advertisements regarding the whereabouts of Dutch historian Diedrich Knickerbocker. These were unaware that Washington Irving acquired invented the person completely and positioned the advertisements himself. Knickerbocker's purported manuscript, A History of New York, was Irving's own. Told from Knickerbocker's viewpoint, A History of New York is a chronicle of New York's fifty years under Dutch guideline in the 1600s that has fast and loose with the reality, to uproarious impact. A History of New York propelled Irving to the levels of literary stardom.