Jonathan Mahler – författare
Gods of New York
The Tumultuous Eighties, from Donald Trump to the Tompkins Square Riots
255 kr
Skickas
The Gods of New York
The Tumultuous Eighties, from Donald Trump to the Tompkins Square Riots
198 kr
Skickas
New York City entered 1986 as a city reborn, with record profits on Wall Street sending waves of money splashing across Manhattan and bringing a once-bankrupt and reeling city back to life. But it also entered 1986 as a city divided. Nearly one-third of the city's Black and Hispanic residents were living below the poverty line. Thousands of New Yorkers were sleeping in the streets - and in many cases addicted to drugs, dying of AIDS, or suffering from mental illness. The manufacturing jobs that had once sustained a thriving middle class had vanished. Long-simmering racial tensions were boiling over.Over the next four years, a singular confluence of events - involving a cast of outsized, unforgettable characters - would widen those divisions into chasms. Ed Koch. Donald Trump. Al Sharpton. The Central Park Five. Larry Kramer. Spike Lee. Rudy Giuliani. Howard Beach. Tawana Brawley. The Preppy Murder. The Tompkins Square Riots. Jimmy Breslin. Ivan Boesky. Do the Right Thing, Wall Street, crack, the AIDS epidemic, Black Monday and, of course, ready to pour gasoline on every fire - the tabloids.In The Gods of New York, bestselling author Jonathan Mahler tells the story of these outsized characters and of these convulsive, defining years. It's an exuberant, kaleidoscopic, and deeply immersive portrait of a city in transformation, one whose long-held identity was suddenly up for grabs: Could it be both the great working-class city, drawing in and lifting up immigrants from around the world and the money-soaked capital of global finance? Could it retain a civic culture - a common idea of what it meant to be a New Yorker - when the rich were building a city of their own and vast swaths of its citizens were losing faith in the systems that were intended to protect them? New York was one thing at the dawn of 1986; it would be something very different as 1989 came to a close. This book is the story of how that happened.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning
1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City
275 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
The Challenge: How a Maverick Navy Officer and a Young Law Professor Risked Their Careers to Defend the Constitution--And Won
277 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: 1986-1990
362 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: 1986-1990
270 kr
Kommande
Gods of New York
The Tumultuous Eighties, from Donald Trump to the Tompkins Square Riots
152 kr
Kommande