Yonkers, New Jersey, 1987. Nicholas Wasicsko, the city's ambitious young mayor is given a court order demanding that the city build public housing on the white, middle-class side of town in order to right what the judge saw as intentional, decades-long pattern of segregation. As these cosy neighbourhoods were faced with the reality of a truly diverse and accepting community, the city went into crisis. In the fine tradition of American reportage, Show Me a Hero is the story of a city divided by fear, racism, politics and even murder. It is also the story of the individuals whose lives were shattered by the meltdown: the young mother, the activist, the ambitious politician.
Lisa Belkin is the Senior National Correspondent for Yahoo News, covering American social issues. She is the author of three books - Life's Work, Confessions of an Unbalanced Mom, First, Do No Harm and Show Me A Hero which will air as an HBO miniseries in August 2015. She is also the editor of two anthologies. A graduate of Princeton University, she has returned there as a visiting professor in the Humanities Council, teaching narrative non- fiction as an instrument of social change.
ISBN:
9781447295334
Binding:
Paperback
Pub. Date:
01/10/2015
Category:
True Crime
Imprint:
Pan
Pages:
352 page/s
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$19.99 AUD
Show Me a Hero
Belkin, Lisa
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