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The Gods of New York revisits the city’s turbulent late 1980s, charting how crime, race, spectacle, and sheer ambition reshaped the city| Washington Monthly
Jonathan Mahler’s first book, the 2005 Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning, was a work of historical journalism that re-created the summer and fall of 1977. Mahler interweaved the story of the New York Yankees World Series-winning season with the chaotic events in the city that year, including the Son of Sam murders, the massive city-wide blackout that summer, and the free-for-all mayoral election that featured Ed Koch, Mario Cuomo, and Bella Abzug. The post The Last Time New York Hi...|
The Gods of New York revisits the city’s turbulent late 1980s, charting how crime, race, spectacle, and sheer ambition reshaped the city| Washington Monthly
I saw James Brown live once. It was in early 1994, at Radio City Music Hall. My father took my wife and me. This was a surprise, because my father was not a big live-music guy (he took me…| burning ambulance
