Books & the Arts / How the popular mayor and a popular front of radicals and reformers transformed New York City Michael Kazin Mike Wallace’s Gotham at War is the third and final volume of the most ...

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Democracy survives only when people practice self-governance through persuasion, respect, awareness and participation.

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