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    Show Me A Hero: A Tale of Murder, Suicide, Race, and Redemption

    Written by Lisa Belkin

    Narrated by Jay Snyder

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    NOW AN HBO MINISERIES

    Not in my backyard -- that's the refrain commonly invoked by property owners who oppose unwanted development. Such words assume a special ferocity when the development in question is public housing. Lisa Belkin penetrates the prejudices, myths, and heated emotions stirred by the most recent trend in public housing as she re-creates a landmark case in riveting detail, showing how a proposal to build scattered-site public housing in middle-class neighborhoods nearly destroyed an entire city and forever changed the lives of many of its citizens.
    -- Public housing projects are being torn down throughout the United States. What will take their place? Show Me a Hero explores the answer.
    -- An important and compelling work of narrative nonfiction in the tradition of J. Anthony Lukas's Common Ground.
    -- A sweeping yet intimate group portrait that assesses the effects of public policy on individual human lives.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateSep 29, 2015
    ISBN9781478936732
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    Show Me A Hero: A Tale of Murder, Suicide, Race, and Redemption
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    Lisa Belkin

    Lisa Belkin is the Senior National Correspondent for Yahoo News, covering American social issues. She joined Yahoo in 2014, after nearly two years as the Senior Correspondent at the Huffington Post, where she reported and opined about life, work and family. Prior to joining HuffPost, she spent nearly thirty years at The New York Times, where she was variously a national correspondent, a medical reporter, a Contributing Writer for The New York Times Magazine and the creator of the Life's Work column and the Motherlode blog. She is the author of Life's Work: Confessions of an Unbalanced Mom, First, Do No Harm and Show Me A Hero which aired as an HBO miniseries starring Oscar Isaac. She is also the editor of two anthologies. A graduate of Princeton University, she has returned there as a visiting professor in the Humanities Council, teaching narrative non- fiction as an instrument of social change.

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