Reclaiming Gotham: Bill De Blasio and the Movement to End America's Tale of Two Cities - Rilegato

González, Juan

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ISBN 10: 1620972093 ISBN 13: 9781620972090

Casa editrice: New Pr, 2017

Riassunto

In November 2013, a little-known progressive stunned the elite of New York City by capturing the mayoralty by a landslide. Bill de Blasio’s promise to end the “Tale of Two Cities” had struck a chord among ordinary residents still struggling to recover from the Great Recession.

De Blasio’s election heralded the advent of the most progressive New York City government in generations. Not since the legendary Fiorello La Guardia in the 1930s had so many populist candidates captured government office at the same time. Gotham, in other words, had been suddenly reclaimed in the name of its people.

How did this happen? De Blasio’s victory, journalist legend Juan González argues, was not just a routine change of government but a popular rebellion against corporate-friendly policies that had dominated New York for decades. Reflecting that broader change, liberal Democrats Bill Peduto in Pittsburgh, Betsy Hodges in Minneapolis, and Martin Walsh of Boston also won mayoral elections that same year, as did insurgent Ras Baraka in Newark the following year. This new generation of municipal leaders offers valuable lessons for those seeking grassroots reform.

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Praise for Juan González:
"An iron man of the news room...there has not been a New York City newspaper writer who identified so completely with the struggles of working men and women for many years."
—Tom Robbins

Praise for Juan González’s Harvest of Empire:
"A serious, significant contribution to understanding who the Hispanics of the United States are and where they came from."
The New York Times Book Review

"Required reading, not simply for Latinos but for everyone."
Kansas City Star

"Methodical, convincing and written in a style that makes its fact-filled chapters flow with ease a fresh perspective on the long history of Latinos in the United States offers an insider’s view of the rich and varied fabric of the people soon to be the largest minority in the United States."
San Diego Tribune

L'autore:

Juan González is one of this country’s best-known Latino journalists. He was a staff columnist for New York’s Daily News from 1987 to 2016 and has been a co-host since 1996 of Democracy Now! He is the author of Harvest of Empire, News for All the People, and Fallout. Born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, he was raised in East Harlem and Brooklyn, New York.

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• Editore: New Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1620972093
• ISBN 13: 9781620972090
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 317