New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation 9781982149802, 2020032026, 9781982149789, 9781982149796

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New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation
9781982149802, 2020032026, 9781982149789, 9781982149796

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Thomas Dyja

Table of contents :
Cover
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

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