Show me a hero
A tale of murder, suicide, race, and redemption
by Lisa Belkin
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Gripping and timeless. Lisa Belkin's Show Me A Hero covers many important topics while re-telling the tragic and touching real-life events of Yonkers, NY in the 80's and 90's.
Not in my backyard -- that's the refrain commonly invoked by property owners who oppose unwanted development. Such words assume a special ferocity when the development in question is public housing. Lisa Belkin penetrates the prejudices, myths, and heated emotions stirred by the most recent trend in public housing as she re-creates a landmark case in riveting detail, showing how a proposal to build scattered-site public housing in middle-class neighborhoods nearly destroyed an entire city and forever changed the lives of many of its citizens.
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Social conditions, History, Politics and government, Poor, Race relations, Public housing, Social conflict, African Americans, Afro-Americans, New york (state), social conditions, Poor, new york (state), New York Times reviewed, Discrimination in housingPeople
Nicholas Wasicsko, Mary Dorman, Oscar Newman, Nay Noe Wasicsko, Doreen Henderson, Carmen Febles, Norma O'neil, Hank Spallone, Jim Surdoval, Anne Wasicsko, Michael WasicskoPlaces
Yonkers, New York (State), Yonkers (N.Y.)Times
20th century, 1980s-1990sShowing 3 featured editions. View all 3 editions?
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Show me a hero: A tale of murder, suicide, race, and redemption
1999, Little, Brown
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in English
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0316088056 9780316088053
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"Nicholas Wasicsko had always wanted to be mayor of Yonkers."
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