This informative anthology provides convenient, inexpensive access to a wide range of current, carefully selected articles from some of the most respected newspapers, magazines, and journals published today. Some issues discussed are: urban economies; urban policies and politics and urban problems.

Annual Editions: Urban Society, 10th edition

Politics & Social Sciences

Fred Siegel

Sociology

Mcgraw-Hill College

This anthology provides access to a wide range of articles from some of the most respected newspapers, magazines and journals. The illustrated articles by sociologists, educators, writers and researchers provide a perspective on important topics of the day in the study of urban society.

Urban Society (9th ed (Annual Editions))

Social Sciences

Urban Society (Annual Editions)

Brown & Benchmark Pub

The Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York and the Genius of American Life

In the first post-9/11 account of the career of the man who established himself as "America’s Mayor" in the dark days after America was attacked, Fred Siegel shows how Rudy Giuliani’s successes in New York set a promising example for the rejuvenation of our major cities. Someone who has worked with Giuliani as well as studied him, Siegel regards Giuliani as a shrewd tactician and artist of the possible who could have stepped out of the pages of Machiavelli’s The Prince. A self-promoting, self-absorbed man, the mayor made his enormous ego and tribal ethos serve the city’s well-being, promoting ideals that transcended New York’s ethnic politics and business as usual. The Prince of the City is at once a fascinating character study, a history of New York over the last forty years, and a classic inquiry into the issue of how cities thrive or die.

The Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York, and the Genius of American Life

History

Americas

Blackstone

In The Crisis of Liberalism: Prelude to Trump, Fred Siegel leverages New York City to uncover the key political conflicts and social contradictions in American liberalism over the last century. This wide-ranging collection of essays critically recounts how passionate intellectual debates and then heated cultural struggles over how to realize "the good life" in the modern city emerged from the writings of early progressive "thought leaders." Herbert Croly and H. G. Wells once envisioned college graduates as a new elite that could pick up the project of enlightened democratic governance where the European aristocracy had failed. Yet, as Eric Hoffer observed, these graduates left top-notch schools as liberal technocrats wanting "power, lordship, and opportunities for imposing action." The flaws in this approach expressed themselves most floridly in John Lindsay's New York, as his activist top-level experts and their many bottom-tier clients aligned themselves against the material aspirations and cultural values of the five boroughs' middle social strata. Lindsay's flashy limousine liberals were a preview of today's politically correct gentry liberalism. Its cultural programs over the past half-century, as Siegel shows, ultimately failed the downtrodden underclass and alienated middle-class New Yorkers trapped in economic stagnation after 9/11. While Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama sparred over policy minutiae in the heated 2008 Democratic Party primaries, both candidates neglected voters' worries, like illegal immigrants or China's emerging threats. This misdirection of the nation's and the city's politics by globalist technocratic liberals became the prelude to Donald Trump's angry nationalist reaction to put "America First."

The Crisis of Liberalism: Prelude to Trump

Joel Kotkin

Telos Press Publishing

The Richest Man In Babylon For Today brilliantly creates a new classic set of up-to-date stories to guide you in saving money, getting out of debt and having your money work for you by making more money. With steps as easy to understand as 1,2,3 this book shows you how to take control of your life and become financially independent.

The Richest Man in Babylon for Today: New Secrets for Building Wealth in the 21st Century

Business & Money

Personal Finance

Grammaton Pr

In The Future Once Happened Here, Fred Siegel tells an incredible story about the fate of America's most influential cities; New York, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. Standing as metaphors for America's urban life because of their stature as ne...

The Future Once Happened Here: New York, D.C., L.A., and the Fate of America's Big Cities (Large Print 16pt)

ReadHowYouWant

The Prince of the City is at once a fascinating character study of one of America's most charismatic public figures, a history of New York over the last forty years, and a classic inquiry into the issue of how cities thrive or die. Siegel's story culminates with a dramatic account of September 11, 2001, revealing how Giuliani's s eight years in office had prepared him and the city to rise to this tragic occasion and how in the aftermath of the attack he became America's Mayor. Siegel concludes with a look at how Guiliani's successor, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, has handled his legacy and at what lies in Guiliani's political future.

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Encounter Books

The Revolt Against the Masses

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