The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge - Hardcover

English, T. J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0061824550 ISBN 13: 9780061824555

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 2011

Synopsis

Drawing on interviews with participants--as well as court transcripts and police records--the author explores the killing of two white women during the racially charged 60s in New York City, including the drama of the subsequent investigation, which featured a young African-American scapegoat, a corrupt white cop and a militant member of the Black Panther Party. 100,000 first printing.

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Review:

"The Savage City is a necessary examination of the people, passions and maligned principles by which New York City once lived and died. English has a magnificent sense of the manner in which people, landscape, and history are bound together. Every world is a corner and every corner is a world."--Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin

"It's dripping with the kind of detail that's too good to make up."--Mother Jones

"English paints a vivid, gritty panorama of a city wracked by racial insurgency. . . . a gripping, noirish retrospective of an era when brutal misrule sparked desperate rage."--Publishers Weekly

"A searing profile of an ugly New York...."The Savage City" is meant to make us look back in anger and sorrow, perhaps to reflect upon what stayed the same as things changed."--New York Daily News

"A brutal reminder that New York was not always such a welcoming place."--New York Post

"[T.J. English] returns with a swashbuckling, racially charged nightmare about New York City in 1960s. This is one nightmare worth reliving because Mr. English so vividly recreates an era....he graphically reconstructs a rampaging decade through three lives."--New York Times

"A comprehensive, still-shocking exhumation of racial discord in America."--Kirkus

[T.J. English] returns with a swashbuckling, racially charged nightmare about New York City in 1960s. This is one nightmare worth reliving because Mr. English so vividly recreates an era .he graphically reconstructs a rampaging decade through three lives. --New York Times"

A searing profile of an ugly New York ."The Savage City" is meant to make us look back in anger and sorrow, perhaps to reflect upon what stayed the same as things changed. --New York Daily News"

An epic look at the racial animus, fear, and hatred that characterized [a] troubled decade. . . . Through the lives of three ostensibly unrelated men, English peels back the underlying turmoil that led to the violent period and the unaddressed social ills that remain to this day. --Booklist (starred review)"

Book Description:

New York Times bestselling author T.J. English reveals the violent story of how America's greatest city struggled to define itself in the modern age

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0061824550
• ISBN 13: 9780061824555
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 474