Juan Gonzalez is one of this country s best-known Latino journalists. He was a staff columnist for New York s Daily News from 1987 to 2016 and has been a co-host since 1996 of Democracy Now! He is the author of Harvest of Empire, News for All the People, and Fallout. Born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, he was raised in East Harlem and Brooklyn, New York."
Praise for Reclaiming Gotham:
"A leading Latino journalist looks at the left-populist uprising
that brought Bill de Blasio into the New York mayor's office and
sharpened the nation's blue-red divide. . . . Urban activists in
other cities have much to learn from New York's experience, and
Gonzalez's book makes a good place to start."
-Kirkus Reviews
"The future is never charted in Washington. The future always
begins at the grassroots, in our great cities. Our ablest
chronicler of urban affairs, Juan Gonzalez, has with Reclaiming
Gotham produced the essential book on today's American
politics-and, more importantly, on the next American politics. This
is a visionary book that begins in New York and takes us to cities
across the United States. Brilliantly reported, intensely honest,
Reclaiming Gotham goes to the heart of the city and finds
what the finest reporters always uncover there: struggle, courage,
and, above all, hope."
-John Nichols, The Nation
"Juan Gonzalez, whose radical light has never dimmed, is simply one
of the greatest urban reporters of our time. Here he tells the
story of Bill de Blasio's hopeful, if often lurching, crusade to
turn America's richest metropolis into a city with equity for
all."
-Tom Robbins, investigative journalist in residence at the CUNY
Graduate School of Journalism, winner of the 2016 Hillman Prize for
Newspaper Journalist and 2016 Pulitzer Prize finalist for
Investigative Reporting
"A warm and deeply read and well-informed view of Mayor de Blasio
that clarifies the important achievements that he and the forces
who brought him into office have achieved, without losing sight of
the compromises that they made on the journey to influence."
-John Mollenkopf, Distinguished Professor of Political Science
and Sociology and director of the Center for Urban Research at the
Graduate Center, City University of New York
Praise for Juan Gonzalez's Harvest of Empire:
"A serious, significant contribution to understanding who the
Hispanics of the United States are and where they came from."
The New York Times Book Review
"Required reading, not simply for Latinos but for everyone."
Kansas City Star
"Methodical, convincing and written in a style that makes its
fact-filled chapters flow with ease a fresh perspective on the long
history of Latinos in the United States offers an insider's view of
the rich and varied fabric of the people soon to be the largest
minority in the United States."
San Diego Tribune
Praise for Juan Gonzalez:
"An iron man of the news room...there has not been a New York City
newspaper writer who identified so completely with the struggles of
working men and women for many years."
-Tom Robbins
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