Brian Tochterman, “The Dying City: Postwar New York and the Ideology of Fear” (UNC Press, 2017)

What does it mean to say that a city can “die”? As Brian Tochterman shows in this compelling intellectual and cultural history, motifs of imminent death—of a “Necropolis” haunting the country’s great “Cosmopolis”—have been a persistent feature of discourse on the probable fate of New York City since the Second...

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