Show me a hero : a tale of murder, suicide, race, and redemption
Belkin, Lisa, 1960-2015
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Lisa Belkin brings to life a landmark public housing case in Yonkers, New York in riveting detail. What began with a judge's order to build scattered-site public housing in middle-class neighbourhoods, ended in the near destruction of a city - sparking prejudices, fanning emotions into flame and eventually leading to murder and suicide. Belkin's sympathetic portrait of the people at the centre of this crisis - hopeful, fearful, greedy, manipulative, the gamut of human behaviour - is page-turning to its powerful, redemptive end.
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Author:
Belkin, Lisa, 1960-, author
Imprint:
London : Pan Books, 2015.
Collation:
xvii, 347 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: Boston: Little, Brown, 1999.TV tie-in.
ISBN:
9781447295334 (pbk)
Language:
English
Subject:
SocietyYonkers (N.Y.) -- Race relationsYonkers (N.Y.) -- Social conditionsYonkers (N.Y.) -- Politics and governmentAfrican Americans -- New York (State) -- Yonkers -- Social conditionsPoor -- New York (State) -- Yonkers -- Social conditionsPublic housing -- New York (State) -- Yonkers -- History -- 20th centurySocial conflict -- New York (State) -- Yonkers -- History -- 20th centurySocietyPoverty -- USA
BRN:
1106674
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