Reforming Social Services in New York City examines efforts across six decades to respond to poverty, joblessness, and homelessness through the establishment and periodic restructuring of the citys Human Resources Administration...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Sep-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501782893)
This book examines efforts to respond to the challenging problem of inner-city poverty by examining the shifting policies of New York Citys Human Resources Administration (HRA) over the course of six decades. The efforts to redirect an entrenched b...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Jul-2025, Other book format, Izdevniecība: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501782909)
Reforming Social Services in New York City examines efforts across six decades to respond to poverty, joblessness, and homelessness through the establishment and periodic restructuring of the citys Human Resources Administration...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Jul-2025, Other book format, Izdevniecība: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501782916)
This book examines efforts to respond to the challenging problem of inner-city poverty by examining the shifting policies of New York Citys Human Resources Administration (HRA) over the course of six decades. The efforts to redirect an entrenched b...Lasīt vairāk
The riveting story of how the murder of prostitute Vivian Gordon brought about the downfall of the mayor of New York City and an end to the dominance of Tammany Hall.Propulsive. . . . Unlike the sensationalist reporters of the era,...Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1991, Changing New York City Politics provides an important grounding for understanding where New York City politics is likely to go in the coming two years.Three decades after New York Citys first Black mayor was...Lasīt vairāk
This book aims to highlight the causes why the Prohibition Era led to an evolution of the New York mob from a rural, ethnic and small-scale to an urban, American and wide-scale crime. This book aims to highlight the causes why the P...Lasīt vairāk
The 1931 murder of Broadway Butterfly Vivian Gordon exposed an explosive story of graft, corruption and entrapment that went all the way to the top of the state. Wolraich brings a journalists eye and a novelists elegance to this story of Jazz...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 18-Mar-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: St Martin's Press, ISBN-13: 9781250285782)
A hugely entertaining celebration of one of Americas greatest politicians--a source of inspiration for our equally challenging times....Fiorello La Guardia was one of the twentieth centurys most colorful politicians--on the New York and national s...Lasīt vairāk
Giuliani was hailed after 9/11 as Americas Mayor, a singular figure who at the time was more widely admired than the pope. He was brilliant, accomplished--and complicated. He conflated politics with morality and caused his own downfall with a ser...Lasīt vairāk
Author Edgardo Melendez is a scholar in Puerto Rican studies, Latino studies, and political science. In this book for students and scholars, he examines reactions against Puerto Rican migration to New York City during the period 1945 to 1960. He...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States
(Izdošanas datums: 11-Nov-2022, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Rutgers University Press, ISBN-13: 9781978831476)
The Puerto-Rican Problem in Postwar New York City presents the first comprehensive examination of the emergence, evolution, and consequences of the Puerto Rican problem movement and narrative in New York City from 1945 to 1960. This notion origi...Lasīt vairāk
New York, 1919. The President of the self-declared Irish Republic, Eamon de Valera, joined representatives from other new European nation states seeking recognition and funding. Back in the home country, Michael Collins was raising funds in open...Lasīt vairāk
This book aims to highlight the causes why the Prohibition Era led to an evolution of the New York mob from a rural, ethnic and small-scale to an urban, American and wide-scale crime. The temperance project, advocated by the WASP elite since the ear...Lasīt vairāk
An intimate and moving account of how the author rose from poverty to become a major Black political figure in New York State-- An intimate and moving account of how the author rose from poverty to become a major Black political figure i...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Mar-2022, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Arkansas Press, ISBN-13: 9781682262214)
Why did Winthrop Rockefeller, scion of one of the most powerful families in American history, leave New York for an Arkansas mountaintop in the 1950s? In this richly detailed biography of the former Arkansas governor, John A. Kirk delves into the his...Lasīt vairāk
A New York Times Notable Book A lively, immersive history by an award-winning urbanist of New York City’s transformation, and the lessons it offers for the city’s future.Dangerous, filthy, and falling...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 04-Mar-2022, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Arkansas Press, ISBN-13: 9781682261958)
Why did Winthrop Rockefeller, scion of one of the most powerful families in American history, leave New York for an Arkansas mountaintop in the 1950s? In this richly detailed biography of the former Arkansas governor, John A. Kirk delves into the his...Lasīt vairāk
