Show Me a Hero: A Tale of Murder, Suicide, Race, and Redemption

Lisa Belkin

Show Me a Hero: A Tale of Murder, Suicide, Race, and Redemption
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Country
United Kingdom
Published
13 October 2015
Pages
368
ISBN
9781447295334

Show Me a Hero: A Tale of Murder, Suicide, Race, and Redemption

Lisa Belkin

THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE HBO MINISERIES

Belkin so successfully evokes the city and its people that the reader is caught up in the battle … Show Me a Hero is a rich, well-told story Chicago Tribune

Yonkers, New Jersey, 1987. Nicholas Wasicsko, the city’s ambitious young mayor is given a court order demanding that the city build public housing on the white, middle-class side of town in order to right what the judge saw as intentional, decades-long pattern of segregation. As these cosy neighbourhoods were faced with the reality of a truly diverse and accepting community, the city went into crisis. In the fine tradition of American reportage, Show Me a Hero is the story of a city divided by fear, racism, politics and even murder. It is also the story of the individuals whose lives were shattered by the meltdown: the young mother, the activist, the ambitious politician.

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