August 13, 2025
The Gods of New York Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City 1986-1990
The Gods of New York Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City 1986-1990 | 5.84 MB
Title: The Gods of New York
Author: Jonathan Mahler
Category: History of Mid-Atlantic U.S., Popular Culture, U.S. State & Local History
Language: English | 447 Pages | ISBN: 978-0525510642
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A sweeping chronicle of four tumultuous years in 1980s New York that changed the city forever-and anticipated the forces that would soon divide the nation-from the bestselling author of Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning
“A rip-roaring, sweeping, essential work of history . . . a deeply reported and brilliantly observed account of how the modern city was born and why all of us continue to live with the results.”-Jonathan Eig, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of King: A Life
New York entered 1986 as a city reborn. Record profits on Wall Street sent waves of money splashing across Manhattan, bringing a battered city roaring back to life.
But it also entered 1986 as a city whose foundation was beginning to crack. Thousands of New Yorkers were sleeping in the streets, addicted to drugs, dying of AIDS, or suffering from mental illnesses. Nearly one-third of the city’s Black and Hispanic residents were…
A sweeping chronicle of four tumultuous years in 1980s New York that changed the city forever-and anticipated the forces that would soon divide the nation-from the bestselling author of Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning
“A rip-roaring, sweeping, essential work of history . . . a deeply reported and brilliantly observed account of how the modern city was born and why all of us continue to live with the results.”-Jonathan Eig, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of King: A Life
New York entered 1986 as a city reborn. Record profits on Wall Street sent waves of money splashing across Manhattan, bringing a battered city roaring back to life.
But it also entered 1986 as a city whose foundation was beginning to crack. Thousands of New Yorkers were sleeping in the streets, addicted to drugs, dying of AIDS, or suffering from mental illnesses. Nearly one-third of the city’s Black and Hispanic residents were…
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