Jonathan Mahler, a writer for The New York Times Magazine, is the author of Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning and The Challenge: How a Maverick Navy Officer and a Young Law Professor Risked Their Careers to Defend the Constitution-and Won.
~~tag-text~~
By early 1977, the metropolis was in the grip of hysteria caused by a murderer dubbed 'Son of Sam.' And on a sweltering night in July, a citywide power outage touched off an orgy of looting and arson that led to the largest mass arrest in New York's histo... SEE MORE