{"product_id":"the-gods-of-new-york","title":"The Gods of New York","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew York City entered 1986 as a city reborn, with record profits on Wall Street sending waves of money splashing across Manhattan and bringing a once-bankrupt and reeling city back to life. But it also entered 1986 as a city divided. Nearly one-third of the city's Black and Hispanic residents were living below the poverty line. Thousands of New Yorkers were sleeping in the streets - and in many cases addicted to drugs, dying of AIDS, or suffering from mental illness. The manufacturing jobs that had once sustained a thriving middle class had vanished. Long-simmering racial tensions were boiling over. Over the next four years, a singular confluence of events - involving a cast of outsized, unforgettable characters - would widen those divisions into chasms. In this book, Jonathan Mahler tells the story of these outsized characters and of these convulsive, defining years.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hutchinson Heinemann","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56064777388406,"sku":"9781529155082","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9857\/1159\/files\/9781529155082.jpg?v=1754662820","url":"https:\/\/bookbag.mom\/products\/the-gods-of-new-york","provider":"Bookbag Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}