Show Me A Hero
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Word Count
88,000 words, Guess
Page Count
352 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveshowmeherotaleof0000belk
- Internet Archiveshowmeherotaleof0000belk_p2a7
- ISBN-100316088641
- ISBN-139780316088640
- LibraryThing3415522
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- Goodreads189930
- Library of Congress Control Number98041822
- OCLC Control Number44862330
- Better World Books9780316088640
- Open LibraryOL9500211M
Classifications
- LCCF129.Y5
- LCCF129.Y5 B45 1999
- DDC305.8/009747277
Description
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.
First Sentence
Nicholas Wasicsko had always wanted to be mayor of Yonkers.
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