"Winner of the 2007 Isabelle Hermalyn Book Award, New York Urban History" "Winner of the 2007 New York City Book Award" D. Graham Burnett is associate professor of history at Princeton University and an editor at Cabinet magazine. His books include Masters of All They Surveyed and A Trial by Jury. In Moby-Dick, Ishmael declares, "Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that a whale is a fish, and call upon holy...