Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics
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| Rating | : | 4.21 (858 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 080509525X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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Find the clues Marti Very good to read. Well done.. "Five Stars" according to Richard. No issues. BigRedAbraham said Much more than just a history of New York City's budget crisis in the 1970s. Fantastic book. Of course it's nice to know the history of 1970s New York in greater detail (including putting the headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead" in better context). But the true objective of this book is to show how New York's budget crisis was exploited by larger forces -- the ones you might have read about in this autho
Lucid, elegantly written, full of new information, it belongs on the shelf of key books about the city, alongside The Power Broker, Gotham, and their like.”Joshua B. Kim Philips-Fein convincingly explains why that caused problems for the city in the past and why now we need New York values more than ever."Joseph E. Kim Phillips-Fein is a historian of the first order.”Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything“Fair, thorough, incisive, and stylish, this is the best book to read not just on New York’s fiscal crisis of the 1970s, but about how bankers became our unacknowledged legislators ever since.”Rick Perlstein, author of Nixonland and The Invisible Bridge“Before there was Reagan, before there was Thatcher, there was New York City’s fiscal crisis. Sugrue, author of Origins of the Urban Crisis“The remaking of New York
. She lives in New York City. Kim Phillips-Fein is the author of Invisible Hands: The Businessmen’s Crusade Against the New Deal. She teaches history at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study, and has written for The Nation, Dissent, The Baffler, The Atlantic, and The New York Times, among other publication
An epic, riveting history of New York City on the edge of disasterand an anatomy of the austerity politics that continue to shape the world todayWhen the news broke in 1975 that New York City was on the brink of fiscal collapse, few believed it was possible. Bankers and politicians alike seized upon the situation as evidence that social liberalism, which New York famously exemplified, was unworkable. With unions and ordinary citizens refusing to accept retrenchment, the budget crunch became a struggle over the soul of New York, pitting fundamentally opposing visions of the city against each other. Drawing on never-before-used archival source