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The Battle for Gotham

New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs

By Roberta Brandes Gratz

How might New York and other urban centers emerge from the current economic crisis? Roberta Brandes Gratz revisits the New York of the 1960s and 1970s—particularly the clash of wills between Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs—to tell a deeply revisionist story of how New York City emerged from crisis and how that regeneration can inform our response to the current crisis. 		bookone

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Murder City

Ciudad Juárez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields

By Charles Bowden

"A thrillingly good writer whose grandness of vision is only heightened by the bleak originality of his voice."
—Ron Hansen, The New York Times Book Review

Ciudad Juárez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border city, it now resembles a failed state—in 2008 alone, 1,607 people were murdered. In Murder City, award-winning author Charles Bowden has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city collapses into violence.



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El Monstruo: Book Tour

February 11 - April 13 | Across the United States
Get your copy of El Monstruo: Dread and Redemption in Mexico City signed by Nation Books author John Ross, who is traveling across the United States on a mammoth book tour spanning three months and 20 cities. Click here to see if he's coming to a city near you.

February 11 - May 14
Photo Exhibit by Eugene Richards
(Gage Gallery, Roosevelt University, 18 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL)
Institute Fellow and award-winning photographer Eugene Richards is showing his work, A Procession of Them, at Roosevelt University's Gage Gallery from February 11 through May 14. The exhibit features troubling black-and-white images of mentally ill and mentally disabled patients who are warehoused in deplorable conditions in psychiatric institutions around the world. MORE