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Show Me a Hero

Lisa Belkin
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HBO series
legal battle
New York
Oscar Isaac
public housing
Yonkers

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  • ISBN 9781447295334
  • Weight: 404g
  • Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
  • Publication Date: 10 Sep 2015
  • Publisher: Pan Macmillan
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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In this highly acclaimed book (the basis of a new HBO miniseries, produced by David Simon, creator of The Wire) Lisa Belkin brings to life a landmark public housing case in Yonkers, New York in riveting detail. What began with a judge's order to build scattered-site public housing in middle-class neighbourhoods, ended in the near destruction of a city - sparking prejudices, fanning emotions into flame and eventually leading to murder and suicide. Belkin's sympathetic portrait of the people at the centre of this crisis - hopeful, fearful, greedy, manipulative, the gamut of human behaviour - is page-turning to its powerful, redemptive end.
About Lisa Belkin

Lisa Belkin is the Senior National Correspondent for Yahoo News, covering American social issues.

She joined Yahoo in 2014, after nearly two years as the Senior Correspondent at the Huffington Post, where she reported and opined about life, work and family. Prior to joining HuffPost, she spent nearly 30 years at The New York Times, where she was variously a national correspondent, a medical reporter, a Contributing Writer for The New York Times Magazine and the creator of the Life's Work column and the Motherlode blog.

She is the author of three books -- Life's Work, Confessions of an Unbalanced Mom, First, Do No Harm and Show Me A Hero which will air as an HBO miniseries in August 2015. She is also the editor of two anthologies. A graduate of Princeton University, she has returned there as a visiting professor in the Humanities Council, teaching narrative non- fiction as an instrument of social change.

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