A Phoenix in the Ashes: The Rise and Fall of the Koch Coalition in New York City Politics 0691228205, 9780691228204

A Phoenix in the Ashes: The Rise and Fall of the Koch Coalition in New York City Politics 9780691228204

In the years following its near-bankruptcy in 1976 until the end of the 1980s, New York City came to epitomize the debt-

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Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City 9780231520904

In 1978, Ed Koch assumed control of a city plagued by filth, crime, bankruptcy, and racial tensions. Yet by the end of h

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Left in the Center: The Liberal Party of New York and the Rise and Fall of American Social Democracy 9781501759888

The practical effect and political cost of that complicated trade-off is at the heart of Soyer's Left in the Center

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Skyscraper: The Politics and Power of Building New York City in the Twentieth Century 9780812202601

In Skyscraper, Benjamin Flowers explores the role of culture and ideology in shaping the construction of skyscrapers and

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Skyscraper: The Politics and Power of Building New York City in the Twentieth Century 9780812241846, 2009004272

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The Club King: My Rise, Reign, and Fall in New York Nightlife 9781542015301, 9781542015318, 1542015316, 1542015308

A behind-the-scenes look at the meteoric rise and stunning takedown of a nightclub empire, by the man who held the reins

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A city in the republic: antebellum New York and the origins of machine politics 9780521247214, 9780521070881, 9780511995002

This study of the emergence of machine politics in New York City during the antebellum years sheds light on the origins

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The People of This Generation: The Rise and Fall of the New Left in Philadelphia 9780812202687

"A major contribution to the historiography of the New Left in the United Sates."—Journal of American History

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New York Stories: The Best of the City Section of the New York Times 9780814769355

The City Section of The New York Times shows us "real New Yorkers". “There are eight million stories in the

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Politics and Government in Byzantium: The Rise and Fall of the Bureaucrats 9780755601936, 9780755601967, 9780755601943

Jonathan Shea is Associate Curator of Coins and Seals at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, and Dean’s Dist

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