The Gods of New York

Name: The Gods of New York
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7529133The Gods of New Yorkhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-gods-of-new-york-9780525510642/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/7147542/image.jpg?v=638833276862500000237329MXNRandom House Publishing GroupInStock/Ebooks/A sweeping chronicle of four tumultuous years in 1980s New York that changed the city foreverand anticipated the forces that would soon divide the nationfrom the bestselling author of Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is BurningA 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 Prizewinning author of King: A LifeNew 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 citys Black and Hispanic residents were living below the federal poverty line. Long-simmering racial tensions threatened to boil over.The events of the next four years would split the city open. Howard Beach. Black Monday. Tawana Brawley. The crack epidemic. The birth of ACT UP. The Central Park jogger. The release of Do the Right Thing. And a cast of outsized charactersEd Koch, Donald Trump, Al Sharpton, Spike Lee, Rudy Giuliani, Larry Kramerwould compete to shape the citys future while building their own mythologies.The Gods of New York is a kaleidoscopic and deeply immersive portrait of a city whose identity was suddenly up for grabs: Could it be both the great working-class city that lifted up immigrants from around the world and the money-soaked capital of global finance? Could it retain a civic culturea common idea of what it meant to be a New Yorkerwhen the rich were building a city of their own and vast swaths of its citizens were losing faith in the systems meant to protect them? New York City was one thing at the dawn of 1986; it would be something very different as 1989 came to a close. This is the story of how that happened....7148205The Gods of New York237329https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-gods-of-new-york-9780525510642/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/7147542/image.jpg?v=638833276862500000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20259780525510642_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_A sweeping chronicle of four tumultuous years in 1980s New York that changed the city foreverand anticipated the forces that would soon divide the nationNew 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 citys Black and Hispanic residents were living below the federal poverty line. Long-simmering racial tensions threatened to boil over.The events of the next four years would split the city open. Howard Beach. Black Monday. Tawana Brawley. The crack epidemic. The birth of ACT UP. The Central Park jogger. The release of Do the Right Thing. And a cast of outsized charactersEd Koch, Donald Trump, Al Sharpton, Spike Lee, Rudy Giuliani, Larry Kramerwould compete to shape the citys future while building their own mythologies.The Gods of New York is a kaleidoscopic and deeply immersive portrait of a city whose identity was suddenly up for grabs: Could it be both the great working-class city that lifted up immigrants from around the world and the money-soaked capital of global finance? Could it retain a civic culturea common idea of what it meant to be a New Yorkerwhen the rich were building a city of their own and vast swaths of its citizens were losing faith in the systems meant to protect them? New York City was one thing at the dawn of 1986; it would be something very different as 1989 came to a close. This is the story of how that happened....(*_*)9780525510642_A sweeping chronicle of four tumultuous years in 1980s New York that changed the city foreverand anticipated the forces that would soon divide the nationfrom the bestselling author of Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is BurningA 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 Prizewinning author of King: A LifeNew 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 citys Black and Hispanic residents were living below the federal poverty line. Long-simmering racial tensions threatened to boil over.The events of the next four years would split the city open. Howard Beach. Black Monday. Tawana Brawley. The crack epidemic. The birth of ACT UP. The Central Park jogger. The release of Do the Right Thing. And a cast of outsized charactersEd Koch, Donald Trump, Al Sharpton, Spike Lee, Rudy Giuliani, Larry Kramerwould compete to shape the citys future while building their own mythologies.The Gods of New York is a kaleidoscopic and deeply immersive portrait of a city whose identity was suddenly up for grabs: Could it be both the great working-class city that lifted up immigrants from around the world and the money-soaked capital of global finance? Could it retain a civic culturea common idea of what it meant to be a New Yorkerwhen the rich were building a city of their own and vast swaths of its citizens were losing faith in the systems meant to protect them? New York City was one thing at the dawn of 1986; it would be something very different as 1989 came to a close. This is the story of how that happened....9780525510642_Random House Publishing Grouplibro_electonico_9780525510642_9780525510642Jonathan MahlerInglésMéxico2025-08-12T00:00:00+00:00https://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/RandomHouse-epub-9ebff54e-f486-401a-8c7b-a7e1d674db4a.epub2025-08-12T00:00:00+00:00Random House Publishing Group