Timothy O'Brien
A clear-eyed and harrowing story of a largely African American community's struggles in the face of grinding poverty, urban renewal schemes gone wrong, and a forced ghettoization by the sea. -- www.farrockaway.com This study is required reading for historians... Highly recommended. -- Choice a photographic portrait through fifteen well-chosen images, each really saying more than a thousand words -- Eugenie L. Birch, The Journal of American History Overall this is a very good book...that is worth the time of any scholar with an interest in urban development...I plan to have my doctoral students read it. -- Robert K. Whelan, Journal of Urban Affairs