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A passionate and dramatic account of a year in the life of a city, when baseball and crime reigned supreme, and when several remarkable figures emerged to steer New York clear of one of its most harrowing periods.

By early 1977, the metropolis was in the grip of hysteria caused by a murderer dubbed Son of Sam. And on a sweltering night in July, a citywide power outage touched off an orgy of looting and arson that led to the largest mass arrest in New York''s history. As the turbulent year wore on, the city became absorbed in two epic battles: the fight between Yankee slugger Reggie Jackson and team manager Billy Martin, and the battle between Ed Koch and Mario Cuomo for the city''s mayoralty. Buried beneath these parallel conflictsone for the soul of baseball, the other for the soul of the citywas the subtext of race. The brash and confident Jackson took every black myth and threw it back in white America''s face. Meanwhile, Koch and Cuomo ran bitterly negative campaig

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      Publisher: St Martin's Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 21/03/2006
      ISBN13: 9780312424305, 978-0312424305
      ISBN10: 0312424302
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A passionate and dramatic account of a year in the life of a city, when baseball and crime reigned supreme, and when several remarkable figures emerged to steer New York clear of one of its most harrowing periods.

      By early 1977, the metropolis was in the grip of hysteria caused by a murderer dubbed Son of Sam. And on a sweltering night in July, a citywide power outage touched off an orgy of looting and arson that led to the largest mass arrest in New York''s history. As the turbulent year wore on, the city became absorbed in two epic battles: the fight between Yankee slugger Reggie Jackson and team manager Billy Martin, and the battle between Ed Koch and Mario Cuomo for the city''s mayoralty. Buried beneath these parallel conflictsone for the soul of baseball, the other for the soul of the citywas the subtext of race. The brash and confident Jackson took every black myth and threw it back in white America''s face. Meanwhile, Koch and Cuomo ran bitterly negative campaig

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