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From: The Virginian Pilot
Date: 20070401
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THE ORIGINAL KNICKERBOCKER The Life of Washington Irving

ANDREW BURSTEIN

Basic Books. 420 pp. $27.50.

BY MICHAEL KENNEY

The Boston Globe

GROWING UP in New York City - and often alarmed by middle-of-the-night thunderstorms - I could be comforted by being told it was just Henry Hudson's crew bowling in the Catskills.

The tale in which they appear, Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle," would have been familiar from many retellings, but as Andrew Burstein notes in "The Original Knickerbocker," his engaging biography of Irving, that story, "so long familiar, ...

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