Metropolitan Book, 2017, NM. Paperback
The remarkable story of the 1975 financial crisis that engulfed New York. With unions and ordinary citizens refusing to accept retrenchment, the budget crunch became a struggle over the soul of the city, pitting fundamentally opposing visions of the city against each other. Drawing on never-before-used archival sources and interviews with key players in the crisis, Fear City shows how the brush with bankruptcy permanently transformed New York―and reshaped ideas about government across America. This is not necessarily a book about music, but all what happens in this book will coincide with the birth of punk rock in New York.