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Show Me a Hero: A Tale of Murder, Suicide, Race, and Redemption
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Lisa Belkin
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Back Bay Books
Publication date
September 1, 2015
Pages
347
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Mti
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780316391351
ISBN-10
0316391352
Dimensions
1 by 5.50 by 8.50 in.
Weight
0.70 lbs.
Original list price
$16.99
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: NOW AN HBO MINISERIES
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.
-- Public housing projects are being torn down throughout the United States. What will take their place? Show Me a Hero explores the answer.
-- An important and compelling work of narrative nonfiction in the tradition of J. Anthony Lukas's Common Ground.
-- A sweeping yet intimate group portrait that assesses the effects of public policy on individual human lives.
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.
-- Public housing projects are being torn down throughout the United States. What will take their place? Show Me a Hero explores the answer.
-- An important and compelling work of narrative nonfiction in the tradition of J. Anthony Lukas's Common Ground.
-- A sweeping yet intimate group portrait that assesses the effects of public policy on individual human lives.
Editions
Hardcover
1 edition from Little Brown & Co (March 1, 1999)
9780316088053 | details & prices | 331 pages | 6.25 × 9.75 × 1.00 in. | 1.35 lbs | List price $25.00
About: Details a true account of racial and social conflict in the city of Yonkers, N.
About: Details a true account of racial and social conflict in the city of Yonkers, N.
Paperback
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Mti edition from Back Bay Books (September 1, 2015)
9780316391351 | details & prices | 347 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $16.99
About: NOW AN HBO MINISERIESNot in my backyard -- that's the refrain commonly invoked by property owners who oppose unwanted development.
About: NOW AN HBO MINISERIESNot in my backyard -- that's the refrain commonly invoked by property owners who oppose unwanted development.
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