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When the news broke in 1975 that New York City was on the brink of fiscal collapse, few believed it was possible. How could the country’s largest metropolis fail? How could the capital of the financial world go bankrupt? Yet the city was indeed billions of dollars in the red, with no way to pay back its debts. Bankers and politicians alike seized upon the situation as evidence that social liberalism, which New York famously exemplified, was unworkable. The city had to slash services, freeze wages, and fire thousands of workers, they insisted, or financial apocalypse would ensue. In this vivid account, historian Kim Phillips-Fein tells the remarkable story of the crisis that engulfed the city.
[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071FBJPMV/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B071FBJPMV&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=a3a93524e1a57d84961dbf4d0a7a4180 Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi N azi Plots Against Hollywood and America], by Steven J. Ross (Bloomsbury)
No American city was more important to the Nazis than Los Angeles, home to Hollywood, the greatest propaganda machine in the world. The Nazis plotted to kill the city's Jews and to sabotage the nation's military installations: plans existed for hanging twenty prominent Hollywood figures such as Al Jolson, Charlie Chaplin, and Samuel Goldwyn; for driving through Boyle Heights and machine-gunning as many Jews as possible; and for blowing up defense installations and seizing munitions from National Guard armories along the Pacific Coast.
