Product Description: In a stunning repudiation of the Democratic machine, John V. Lindsay (1921-2000) captured the New York mayoralty in 1965 by promising to rid the city of apathy and corruption and make New York governable again. Over the next eight years, Lindsay presided over a city at the vortex of the civil rights, antiwar, women's, and gay rights movements, a turbulent global economy, demographic upheaval defined by an influx of blacks and Puerto Ricans and an exodus of whites, and volatile local labor politics further fractured by race...read more

No one denies that New York City is unique—but what makes it sui generis? Sam Roberts, longtime city reporter, has puzzled over this in print and in his popular New York Times podcasts for years. In Only in New York, he writes about what makes New York tick and why things are the way they are in the greatest of all cities on earth. The forty essays in this book cover a variety of topics, including: • Why do we have doormen? • Is it noisier in the city or in the country? • Are New Yorkers really as liberal as the rest of the country thinks they are? • Why wasn’t Manhattan’s cross-town street grid oriented by the points of the compass? • If a neighborhood loses its tony zipcode, does it lose its cachet? A winning and informative gift book for every fan of “the city”, Only in New York is elegantly written and solidly reported.

Product Description: In A Kind of Genius, Sam Roberts offers a window onto Herb Sturz’s extraordinary life’s work. Sturz began his long career in social entrepreneurship by reforming the bail system and founding the Vera Institute of Justice. He served as New York City’s Deputy Mayor for Criminal Justice under Ed Koch and then as Chairman of the City Planning Commision...read more

Identifies and offers insight into the trends and social shifts changing the face of America today, covering such topics as the near-retirement of baby boomers, the precarious balance between older Americans and the young culture, welfare reform, and the most recent census.

Product Description: Fifty years after their execution in June 1953 for conspiring to steal atomic secrets, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg remain the subjects of great emotional debate and acrimony. The man whose testimony almost single-handedly convicted them was Ethel Rosenberg’s own brother, David Greenglass...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Drawing on hours of interviews with Greenglass, a shocking, inside story of the Cold War espionage describes how David Greenglass, the brother of Ethel Rosenberg, spied for them at Los Alamos and explores his role in convicting his sister and her husband, Julius, and sending them to the electric chair. 35,000 first printing.

Product Description: This is the definitive history of the Ford Model Y of 1932 to 1937 and all of its worldwide variants. Referred to as the first "world car," the Y is the car that made Ford a truly international company. Most of the great names of the Ford Motor Company were involved with this first streamlined, mass-produced car, including Edsel Ford...read more

Revised to reflect recently released data, a well-written compendium of surprising, often troubling statistics based on the 1990 U.S. Census indicates the challenges faced by the American family, among many other topics. Original. 12,000 first printing.

A portrait of the United States, culled from data based on the 1990 U.S. Census, offers startling statistics, such as the profile of the average American--a 32.7-year-old white woman whose mortgaged suburban home is heated by natural gas. 15,000 first printing.