Ungovernable City

Name: Ungovernable City
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ISBN: 9780465008445

ISBN-10: 0465008445

ISBN-13: 9780465008445

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Authors: Vincent Cannato

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Are cities governable? How much can America's mayors realistically hope to accomplish? In this thoughtful and gripping political biography. Vincent Cannato brings us back to the tumultuous era of the late 1960s and early 1970s when Mayor John Lindsay fought to rescue New York City from the depths of crisis. A reformer with movie-star looks and a liberal Republican agenda, Lindsay brought glamom and hope to City Hall. After eight years as mayor, however, he left office fatigued and disillusioned, his political career in ruins. In telling Lindsay's story. Cannato provides a keen study of American liberalism and paints a vivid picture of a city shaken by labor strikes, racial strife, fiscal…

Book details

List price: $30.99
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 5/16/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 720
Size: 6.10" wide x 8.94" long x 1.65" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English



Introduction



The District's Pride, the Nation's Hope



Mugwump for Mayor: The 1965 Campaign



Fighting the "Power Brokers"



Of Riots, Racial Tensions, and the Youth Rebellion



The Civilian Complaint Review Board



1968 and the Rise of "Dissensus" Politics



Columbia University, 1968: A School Under Siege



From Integration to Decentralization to Community Control: Reforming the New York City Public Schools



Community Control and the 1968 Teachers' Strikes: The Debacle at Ocean Hill--Brownsville



Blacks and Jews: Old Allies, New Tensions



Escape from New York? John Lindsay's Political Dilemmas



Confronting the White Ethnics: The 1969 Campaign



Charting a Second Term Afloat an Ever-Turbulent Sea



Political Disaster: Switching Parties, Forest Hills, and Running for President



Assessing the Lindsay Years



"Good-Bye to All That"


Epilogue


Notes


Index