G. A. Rivera
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Fear City
- New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics
- By: Kim Phillips-Fein
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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When the news broke in 1975 that New York City was on the brink of fiscal collapse, few believed it was possible. How could the country's largest metropolis fail? How could the capital of the financial world go bankrupt? Yet the city was indeed billions of dollars in the red, with no way to pay back its debts. Bankers and politicians alike seized upon the situation as evidence that social liberalism, which New York famously exemplified, was unworkable.
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Thanks for writing this book!!
- By G. A. Rivera on 08-14-21
- Fear City
- New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics
- By: Kim Phillips-Fein
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
Thanks for writing this book!!
Reviewed: 08-14-21
I grew up in NYC and graduated HS in 1975 and in 1976 I attended York College (CUNY) in Queens. These years were so crazy and chaotic just as this book has described. This book paints an accurate picture of what it was like, on a city wide scale, to live there. This book clearly describes the financial and political mismanagement. I can understand how some of the details covered may get tedious if your did not live in NYC during this time period; but, for me it has provided answers to many questions I have had.
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