The Cost of Good Intentions: New York City and the Liberal Experiment

by Charles R. Morris

Book Overview

This book is about public policy making in New York during the zenith of the great liberal experiment, from 1960, Mayor Robert Wagner's third term, through John V. Lindsay, Abraham Beame, and, finally, to Edward Koch and the inevitable return of fiscal conservatism.

The bigger they come the harder they fall. When New York City fell and its intricate, often exotic, budget gimmickry came unstuck, they foundations of every other large city in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039333175X
• ISBN13: 9780393331752
• Release Date: June 1980
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"