7. The Worst American City: A Transfer of Power and the Dire 1970s

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Prologue. Pride in Newark: A 300th Anniversary and a City on the Brink 1
5. PART I. Rise
6. 1. Corporation: Sheltered Puritan Village to Teeming Industrial Hub 13
7. 2. Politics to the Dogs: Southern Sympathy during the Civil War 39
8. 3. Greater Newark: A Metropolis Blooms with the Dawn of the Twentieth Century 63
9. PART II. Fall
10. 4. Dead Weight: Prohibition, Politics, and the Growth of Organized Crime 87
11. 5. The Slums of Ten Years from Now: A City Transformed through Postwar Urban Renewal 119
12. 6. Bound to Explode: Generations of Frustration Boil Over in the Summer of 1967 142
13. 7. The Worst American City: A Transfer of Power and the Dire 1970s 171
14. PART III. Rebirth
15. 8. Sharpe Change: A New Mayor Charts the Meandering Road to Recovery 209
16. 9. A Renaissance for the Rest of Us: Cory Booker Confronts the Power Structure 240
17. 10. Stand Up: A New Administration, a New Arena, and Some Age-Old Struggles 265
18. Note on Sources 287
19. Notes 289
20. Selected Bibliography 321
21. Index 325
22. ABOUT THE AUTHOR 340