{"product_id":"the-savage-city-race-murder-and-a-generation-on-the-edge-isbn-9780061824586","title":"The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge","description":"\u003cp\u003e“T.J. English has the mastered the hybrid narrative art form of social history and underworld thriller. \u003cem\u003eThe Savage City\u003c\/em\u003e is a truly gripping read filled with unexpected twists and turns.”\u003cbr\u003e—Douglas Brinkley, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Great Deluge\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Savage City\u003c\/em\u003e, T.J. English, author of the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling blockbuster \u003cem\u003eHavana Nocturne\u003c\/em\u003e, takes readers back to a frightening place in a dark time of violence and urban chaos: New York City in the 1960s and early ’70s. As he did in his acclaimed true crime masterwork, \u003cem\u003eThe Westies\u003c\/em\u003e, English focuses on the rot on the Big Apple in this stunning tale of race, murder, and a generation on the edge—as he interweaves the real-life sagas of a corrupt cop, a militant Black Panther, and an innocent young African American man framed by the NYPD for a series of crimes, including a brutal and sensational double murder.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn August 28, 1963—the day Martin Luther King Jr. declared \"I have a dream\" on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial—two young white women were murdered in their Manhattan apartment. The so-called Career Girls Murders case sent ripples of fear throughout the city as police scrambled to find the killer. But it also marked the start of a ten-year saga of fear, racial violence, and turmoil in the city—as events progressed from the Harlem riots of the mid-1960s to the Panther Twenty-one trials and police corruption hearings of the early 1970s. \u003cem\u003eThe Savage City\u003c\/em\u003e explores this traumatic decade through the stories of three very different men: George Whitmore Jr., an innocent black teenager coerced into confessing to murder; Bill Phillips, a brazenly crooked officer whose public testimony sparked the largest scandal in NYPD history; and Dhoruba Bin Wahad, a founding member of New York's Black Panther Party, caught in the crossfire as the conflict between the Panthers and the police escalated into open warfare.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Engaging….English’s brand of narrative is history, and he aims to set the record straight.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMiami Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A searing profile of an ugly New York….\u003ci\u003eThe Savage City\u003c\/i\u003e is meant to make us look back in anger and sorrow, perhaps to reflect upon what stayed the same as things changed.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Daily News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A brutal reminder that New York was not always such a welcoming place.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[T.J. English] returns with a swashbuckling, racially charged nightmare about New York City in 1960s. This is one nightmare worth reliving because Mr. English so vividly recreates an era….he graphically reconstructs a rampaging decade through three lives.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“T.J. English has the mastered the hybrid narrative art form of social history and underworld thriller. \u003ci\u003eThe Savage City\u003c\/i\u003e is a truly gripping read filled with unexpected twists and turns. Highly recommended.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDouglas Brinkley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The Savage City is a necessary examination of the people, passions and maligned principles by which New York City once lived and died. English has a magnificent sense of the manner in which people, landscape, and history are bound together. Every world is a corner and every corner is a world.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eColum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A comprehensive, still-shocking exhumation of racial discord in America.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It’s dripping with the kind of detail that’s too good to make up.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMother Jones\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An epic look at the racial animus, fear, and hatred that characterized [a] troubled decade. . . . Through the lives of three ostensibly unrelated men, English peels back the underlying turmoil that led to the violent period and the unaddressed social ills that remain to this day.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“English paints a vivid, gritty panorama of a city wracked by racial insurgency. . . . a gripping, noirish retrospective of an era when brutal misrule sparked desperate rage.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Morrow Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44887925260517,"sku":"NP9780061824586","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780061824586.jpg?v=1730227750","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-savage-city-race-murder-and-a-generation-on-the-edge-isbn-9780061824586","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}