The Ungovernable City

The Ungovernable City
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Total Pages : 730
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ISBN-10 : 9780786749935
ISBN-13 : 0786749938
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Book Synopsis The Ungovernable City by : Vincent Cannato

Download or read book The Ungovernable City written by Vincent Cannato and published by . This book was released on 2009-07-21 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vincent Cannato takes us back to the time when John Lindsay stunned New York with his liberal Republican agenda, WASP sensibility, and movie-star good looks. With peerless authority, Cannato explores how Lindsay Liberalism failed to save New York, and, in the opinion of many, left it worse off than it was in the mid-1960's.


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