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Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City Russell Shorto
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

A city for foreigners as it is one of the most well-known X cities in the world. Consider two indicators: it has more than 50 museums and offers 40,000 cultural performances and events a year. Here, you find the world's most vivid expression of liberal sexual practice. Jun 23, 2012 - As the world knows, Amsterdam is a banquet of cultural pleasure. Russell Shorto is the author of “Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City,” to be published next month by Doubleday. Its history as a cultural capital Nothing makes the liberal attitude of Amsterdam more vivid than streets around the city's oldest building: a church called Oude Kirck, meaning Old Church. Apr 28, 2013 - Friday: Historian and journalist Russell Shorto will be at the State Museum to talk about his upcoming book Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City, as part of the NYS Writers Institute visiting writers series. Or a set of twisted tree trunks will summon, if not the artist himself, a manic flash akin to his. Jul 29, 2013 - Amsterdam could stake a claim to being the birthplace of the modern world. Oct 24, 2013 - Subtitled, A History of the World's Most Liberal City, this beautifully presented book (with end papers, color plates and generous margins) is also a travelogue and a magnificent ode to his adopted home. Amsterdam, Netherlands: The Netherlands entire reputation lies in its one city, Amsterdam. May 26, 2014 - X cities are the most liberal places on the planet, where nothing is taboo, where sex and drugs are a way to life, where no activity is illegal and there are no laws to govern all this. That, in essence, is what Russell Shorto argues in Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City.