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New York, New York, New York : four decades of success, excess, and transformation / by Thomas Dyja.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Dyja, Thomas, author.
Contributor:
EBSCOhost
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
New York (N.Y.)--History--20th century.
New York (N.Y.)--Politics and government--1951-.
New York (N.Y.)--Social conditions.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xx, 523 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Edition:
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Place of Publication:
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2021.
Contents:
Intro
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Introduction
Part I: Renaissance
Chapter One: "I Love New York" Day
Chapter Two: Something It Hadn't Been
Chapter Three: New York Equalize You
Chapter Four: Every Night a Different Channel
Chapter Five: To Lake Ladoga, and Beyond
Chapter Six: The Age of the Individual
Chapter Seven: Be a Card-Carrying Capitalist
Chapter Eight: They Begin to Blossom
Chapter Nine: The Devil and Ed Koch
Chapter Ten: From Queens Come Kings!
Chapter Eleven: Building the Bonfire
Part II: Reconsideration
Chapter Twelve: The Age of Atonement
Chapter Thirteen: A Psychic Turning Point
Chapter Fourteen: Dave, Do Something!
Chapter Fifteen: Mayor School
Chapter Sixteen: The End of the One-Tribe Nation
Chapter Seventeen: You Were on Your Own
Part III: Reformation
Chapter Eighteen: More Like the Rest of America
Chapter Nineteen: Larceny in Everyone's Heart
Chapter Twenty: Cyber City
Chapter Twenty-one: Whose World Is This?
Chapter Twenty-two: Heat Is Quality
Chapter Twenty-three: Stand Clear of the Closing Doors
September 11, 2001
Part IV: Reimagination
Chapter Twenty-four: The Pile, the Pit, and the Bullpen
Chapter Twenty-five: Oz Wasn't Built in a Day
Chapter Twenty-six: "B'klyn Cheers, Trembles"
Chapter Twenty-seven: Too Big to Fail
Chapter Twenty-eight: Hard Landings
Epilogue
Photographs
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Notes
Index
Copyright
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 01, 2021).
Other Format:
Print version: Dyja, Tom. New York, New York, New York.
ISBN:
9781982149802
1982149809
Publisher Number:
90102520990
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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