An Unofficial 'The Rest Is History' Reading List
360. Fear City: New York in the 1970s
August 16, 2023
Description
“A cloud of black, acrid smoke hung over the area. It was a scene from a warzone, a battlefield - it was a scene from the end of the world…” New York in the 1970s was a city decimated by economic...
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Books Referenced
The Power Broker
Author: Robert Caro
Context:
Mentioned as a 'fantastic book' about Robert Moses and how he reshaped New York with expressways, cutting through working-class neighbourhoods
Bonfire of the Vanities
Author: Tom Wolfe
Context:
Referenced as 'the Tom Wolfe novel' in discussion of the Cross-Bronx Expressway, where a yuppie accidentally goes off the wrong exit