Delve Deeper into Koch

A film by Neil Barsky This list of fiction and finance roller coaster came to at the future of urban America. nonfiction books, compiled affect the entire city and the The result of more than a dozen by Rachael Weyand of world. He tackles the major years' work, this remarkable Portland Public Library, controversies over real estate book immerses us in Elmhurst- provides a range of development, the growth of Corona's social and political life perspectives on the issues inequality, the role of from the 1960s through the raised by the POV immigration and the prospects 1990s. documentary Koch. for diversification.

New York City mayors have a Koch, Ed I. Mayor. Harper, ADULT FICTION world stage on which to strut, New York: Simon & and they have made legendary Schuster, 2007. Koch, Edward I and Herbert use of it. Yet few have matched Only Ed Koch could have written Resnicow. Murder at City the bravado, combativeness and Mayor. It is the liveliest, most Hall. New York: Kensington egocentricity that Ed Koch gripping, most outspoken and Publishing Corporation, brought to the office during his most authentic book ever 1995. In his first Ed Koch three terms from 1978 to 1989. written about government. It is mystery, the former Mayor of As Neil Barsky's Koch recounts, the frank, feisty, no-holds- New York City introduces his Koch was more than the blunt, barred account of what it's like fictional alter ego who turns funny man New Yorkers either to run the greatest city in the amateur sleuth to flush out a loved or hated. Elected in the world, written with the murderer who had the nerve to 1970s during the city's fiscal irrepressible honesty, anecdotal kill on Hizzoner's doorstep. crisis, he was a new Democrat humor and tough-minded for the dawning Reagan era— compassion that make the Spanidou, Irini. Before. New fiscally conservative and socially Mayor - and the city he governs York: Knopf, 2007. The liberal. Koch finds the former - unique. setting is 1970s New York City, mayor politically active to the a time and place of creativity, end (he died in 2013)—still Mahler, Jonathan. Ladies and sexual freedom, and unforeseen winning the affection of many Gentlemen, the Bronx is dangers. At its center is New Yorkers while driving Burning: 1977, Baseball, Beatrice, who is twenty-five, others to distraction. Politics, and the Battle for mesmerizingly lovely, the Soul of a City. New York: intelligent, and married to Ned, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, a volatile painter whose ADULT NONFICTION 2005. A kaleidoscopic portrait obsession with her has turned to of New York City in 1977, The hatred. Beatrice is desired by Browne, Arthur; Michael Bronx Is Burning is the story of everyone around her: by Faye, Goodwin and Dan Collins. I, two epic battles: the fight her seductive, bawdy childhood Koch: A Decidedly between Yankee Reggie Jackson friend; by Cyril, a lonely, Unauthorized Biography of and team manager Billy Martin, charismatic Vietnam veteran; by the Mayor of New York. New and the battle between Mario Chris, a young heroin addict. York: Dodd, Mead, 1985. Cuomo and Ed Koch for the And then there is Perkins, the Three journalists combine their city's mayorship. Buried oddly threatening man next own observations with beneath these parallel door. anecdotes from Koch's friends conflicts—one for the soul of and critics to capture all the baseball, the other for the soul Wolfe, Tom. The Bonfire of facets of the outspoken, of the city—was the subtext of the Vanities. New York: enigmatic mayor. race. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1987; reissued by Picador, David, Greg. Modern New Sanjek, Roger. The Future of 2008. Sherman McCoy is a York: The Life and Economics Us All: Race and young investment banker with a of a City. New York: Palgrave Neighborhood Politics in fourteen-room apartment in Macmillan, 2012. The New York City. New Manhattan. When he is involved economic history of New York is York: Cornell University in a freak accident in the Bronx, filled with high-stakes drama Press, 1998. Before the next prosecutors, politicians, the and big figures. In Modern New century is out, Americans of press, the police, the clergy, York, renowned economist and African, Asian, and Latin and assorted hustlers high and political commentator Greg American ancestry will low close in on him, licking their David tells the story of the outnumber those of European chops and giving us a metropolis’s financial highs and origin. In the Elmhurst-Corona gargantuan helping of the lows since the 1960s. He takes neighborhood of Queens, New human comedy of New York in a hard look at how Wall Street York City, the transition the last years of the twentieth came to dominate the economy occurred during the 1970s, and century, a city boiling over with in the years following the the area's two-decade racial and ethnic hostilities and wrenching decade of the Fiscal experience of multiracial burning with the itch to Grab It Crisis and how New York’s high diversity offers us an early look Now.

Delve Deeper into Koch

A film by Neil Barsky

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Gerdes, Louise. Political Danziger, Paula. Remember Campaigns. Detroit: Me to Harold Square. New Greenhaven Press, 2010. York: Puffin, 1999. Kendra's Explores the current status of parents have invited Frank, a campaign finance reform in the 15-year-old she's never met, to United States, including stay with them. And they've strategies that promote fair planned a goofy scavenger hunt political campaigns such as for the kids, including Kendra's public funding, spending caps bratty younger brother. They and media regulation. Examines have to race all around New efforts to prevent partisan York City and visit places like political redistricting; and looks the Empire State Building and at recent influential the United Nations to find developments like small-donor answers. But once they get fundraising and use of the started, Kendra doesn't mind internet in campaigns. the scavenger hunt so much, mostly because Frank turns out Lamprell, Klay. Not For to be just as interesting as all of Parents: New York City, the sights. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know. Footscray, Vic: Koch, Ed and Pat Koch Lonely Planet Publications, Thaler. Eddie, Harold’s Little 2011. This is not a guidebook. Brother. New York: Putnam And it's definitely 'not-for- Juvenile, 2004. Ed Koch, along parents'. It is the real inside with his sister Pat Koch Thaler, story about one of the world's co-wrote this children’s picture most famous cities - New York. book in 2004. In this book you'll hear fascinating tales about towering skyscrapers and deep subways, a naked cowboy, and the Yankees loudest fans. Check out cool stories about hot dogs and snapping alligators, bulls in the stock exchange and sports on the street. You'll find superheroes, famous battles, cops, cooks, and millions of rats.

Panchyk, Richard. New York City History for Kids: From New Amsterdam to the Big Apple: With 21 Activities. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2012. With informative and fun activities, such as painting a Dutch fireplace tile or playing a game of stickball, this valuable resource includes a time line of significant events, a list of historic sites to visit or explore online, and web resources for further study, helping young learners gain a better understanding of the Big Apple’s culture, politics, and geography.