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America’s Mayor: John V. Lindsay and the Reinvention of New York
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paperback. Editor(s): Roberts, Sam. Num Pages: 256 pages, 150 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 15. Weight in Grams: 454.
In a stunning repudiation of the Democratic machine, John V. Lindsay (1921-2000) captured the New York mayoralty in 1965 by promising to rid the city of apathy and corruption and make New York governable again. Over the next eight years, Lindsay presided over a city at the vortex of the civil rights, antiwar, women's, and gay rights movements, a turbulent global economy, demographic upheaval defined by an influx of blacks and Puerto Ricans and an exodus of whites, and volatile local labor politics further fractured by race. He would revolutionize urban planning, hoping to make New York not just inhabitable ... Read more
In a stunning repudiation of the Democratic machine, John V. Lindsay (1921-2000) captured the New York mayoralty in 1965 by promising to rid the city of apathy and corruption and make New York governable again. Over the next eight years, Lindsay presided over a city at the vortex of the civil rights, antiwar, women's, and gay rights movements, a turbulent global economy, demographic upheaval defined by an influx of blacks and Puerto Ricans and an exodus of whites, and volatile local labor politics further fractured by race. He would revolutionize urban planning, hoping to make New York not just inhabitable ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2022
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231152617
SKU
V9780231152617
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About Roberts
Sam Roberts is the urban affairs correspondent of the New York Times and has written for the newspaper for more than two decades. Before joining the Times, Roberts was a reporter and city editor at the Daily News. His writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the New Republic, and New York Magazine, and he is the author ... Read more
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