"Jill Jonnes wrote the
definitive account of one of the great urban tragedies of the 1970's and
1980's: the near destruction of a large part of New York City through an
epidemic of abandonment, vandalism, and arson. But even while the
conflagration raged, determined citizens were trying to stop it, and in this
new edition of her book she tells us how the epidemic was contained and the
Bronx was in large measure rebuilt." |
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