Show Me a Hero
$19.99
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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