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. In this book, Jonathan Mahler tells the story of these outsized characters and of these convulsive, defining years.
The Gods of New York
HistoryAuthor Jonathan Mahler Published by Hutchinson Heinemann ISBN 9781529155082 EAN 9781529155082 Bic Code NHK|JBFA1|JBSA|JBSD|NHTB|JBCC Cover Hardback
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