America’s Mayor: John V. Lindsay and the Reinvention of New York

Edited by Sam Roberts

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Paper, 256 pages, 150 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-15261-7
$29.95 / £20.95

May, 2010
Cloth, 256 pages, 150 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-15260-0
$49.95 / £34.95

“This book is about Lindsay's dream to reinvent New York. Fully a half century since Lindsay was elected to public office, the aftershocks of his record still reverberate as a government grappling with the consequences of immigration, income inequality, a healthcare crisis, and environmental adversity confronts the legacy of the 1960s.

A generation before Rudy Giuliani usurped the title, John V. Lindsay was America's Mayor. While he came to personify the decade's explosive problems, he also exemplified bold potential solutions that were advanced as a national urban agenda, one that resonates today as states and municipalities struggle to avoid bankruptcy."—from the Introduction

Related Subjects

• American History
• New York City
• Urban History

About the Author

Sam Roberts is the urban affairs correspondent of The New York Times and has written for the newspaper for more than two decades. Before joining The Times, Roberts was a reporter and city editor at the Daily News. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, the New Republic, and New York Magazine, and he is the author and coauthor of several books. He lives in New York City.

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