The gods of New York : the tumultuous eighties, from Donald Trump to the Tompkins Square riots
Mahler, Jonathan, 1969-2025
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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.
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prestwich Library | Adult Non-Fiction | 974.71043 | Onloan - Due: 09 Nov 2025 |
Main title:
Author:
Mahler, Jonathan, 1969-, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Hutchinson Heinemann, 2025.
Collation:
512 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781529155082 (hbk)
Dewey class:
974.71043
Language:
English
BRN:
4098375