Chicago’s Far North Side, a few decades ago—a rough-and-tumble place, awash with racial tensions and petty crime. Joey, the youngest child in a mixed-race f

An examination of American cities since 1950, looking at the issue of white flight, and discussing its impact on schools, housing, crime, and jobs.

A Madison Avenue adman returns to the Bronx of his youth in this New York Times bestseller by the author of Kramer vs. Kramer: “Charming” (The New York Time

When Bobby returns to the old neighbourhood, the people and places of his past cast shadows over the present.

Presents a memoir of growing up in the Bronx in the 1940s and 1950s, recalling the simpler way of life and sense of community that prevailed there and discussin