Plague on Your Houses : How New York Was Burned Down and National Public Health Crumbled

Plague on Your Houses : How New York Was Burned Down and National Public Health Crumbled
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A Plague on Your Houses is a scorching indictment of the decision to close fire companies in New York in the 1970s and a frightening study of the way misguided and malevolent social policy can spark a chain reaction of enormous and unforeseen urban collapse.
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