When Mevrouw Jackie Lambert opens her New Amsterdam tavern in 1626, she jumps aboard a madcap ride through New York history. With a razor-sharp tongue and the tastiest beer on either side of the Atlantic, Jackie spurs the tiny Manhattan settlement toward a head-on collision with the tyrannical Dutchmen who rule it. Poison, blackmail, murder, all are fair game as she fends off threats to the family she yearned for growing up as an orphan. And when pegleg Peter Stuyvesant would rather destroy the town than surrender his honor, Jackie must take history into her own hands or lose everything she has spent a lifetime building. “A very authentic ring … like etchings of Everybodies by van Eyck.” – Charles Wendell, Ph.D., President of the New Netherland Institute. Bill Greer has deftly blended fact and fiction in his humorous tale The Mevrouw Who Saved Manhattan. The story covers the period between 1624 to 1664 when Peter Stuyvesant ceded [Manhattan] to England in the Articles of Transfer. The characters are rowdy, raunchy, loveable, and sometimes despicable, but thoroughly believable … This is a thoroughly delightful story that brings the Dutch colonies to life. The Mevrouw Who Saved Manhattan is heartily recommended with or without a tankard of beer, not ale, to accompany it. – Historical Novels Review Online "[A] romp through the history of New Netherland that would surely have Petrus Stuyvesant complaining about the riot transpiring between its pages ... Readers are guaranteed a genuine adventure that will evoke the full range of human emotions. Once begun, they can expect to experience that rare difficulty in putting down a book before they have finished." -- de Halve Maen, Journal of the Holland Society of New York, Summer 2009 The Mevrouw Who Saved Manhattan paints a real and humorous portrait of life in New Amsterdam. The story opens a window into how Dutch culture during the Netherlands' Golden Age transplanted to the wilderness of the Hudson Valley. The thread of Mevrouw Jackie Lambert's life reflects the central theme of the Dutch period, the rebellion of the common people against their rulers, the Dutch West India Company and its Directors, a conflict that historians argue laid the foundation for the pluralistic, freedom-loving society that America became. Used Book in Good Condition