The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs by Roberta Brandes Gratz

The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs

Roberta Brandes Gratz

350 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging tense slow-paced
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In the 1970s, New York City hit rock bottom. Crime was at its highest, the middle class exodus was in high gear, and bankruptcy loomed. Many people credit New York’s “master builder” Robert Moses with turning Gotham around, despite his brutal, und...

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