Review of The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York's Destruction, by Max Page (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008)
… time and genre. Destruction by fire, water, foreigner, and plague have remarkable resiliency, as does the destruction …
… when we get the Comstock laws. This goes back to after the plagues in the Middle Ages, there was witch hunting crazes, … about population bouncing back from these devastating plagues. And so one way to attack that is to attack …
… any race or ethnicity). Ultimately, however, Woodhull was plagued by scandals, some of her own making and others that … Federation of America. Like Woodhull, however, Ferraro was plagued by scandal, most of which related to her husband’s …
… and immigrants at the turn of the century, police brutality plagued cities as well. Newspapers noted the frequency with … a stolen car on foot. Black leaders in Memphis, a city long plagued by police brutality, called for a boycott on white …