The Ungovernable City

by Cannato, Vincent

• ISBN13: 9780465008445
• ISBN10: 0465008445
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-16
• Publisher: Basic Books

Summary

Vincent Cannato takes us back to the time when John Lindsay stunned New York with his liberal Republican agenda, WASP sensibility, and movie-star good looks. With peerless authority, Cannato explores how Lindsay Liberalism failed to save New York, and, in the opinion of many, left it worse off than it was in the mid-1960's.

Author Biography

Vincent Cannato is currently Adjunct Scholar at the Hudson Institute on Public Policy in Washington, D.C. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
The District's Pride, the Nation's Hope	1	(18)
Mugwump for Mayor: The 1965 Campaign	19	(56)
Fighting the ``Power Brokers''	75	(44)
Of Riots, Racial Tensions, and the Youth Rebellion	119	(36)
The Civilian Complaint Review Board	155	(34)
1968 and the Rise of ``Dissensus'' Politics	189	(40)
Columbia University, 1968: A School Under Siege	229	(38)
From Integration to Decentralization to Community Control: Reforming the New York City Public Schools	267	(34)
Community Control and the 1968 Teachers' Strikes: The Debacle at Ocean Hill-Brownsville	301	(52)
Blacks and Jews: Old Allies, New Tensions	353	(22)
Escape from New York? John Lindsay's Political Dilemmas	375	(14)
Confronting the White Ethnics: The 1969 Campaign	389	(54)
Charting a Second Term Afloat an Ever-Turbulent Sea	443	(50)
Political Disaster: Switching Parties, Forest Hills, and Running for President	493	(32)
Assessing the Lindsay Years	525	(30)
``Good-Bye to All That''	555	(22)
Epilogue	577	(4)
Notes	581	(96)
Index	677