Looks at John Lindsay's tenure as mayor of New York City during the tumultuous 1960s, when President Lyndon Johnson launched his ambitious Great Society Program.
Joseph P. Viteritti is the Thomas Hunter Professor of Public Policy and Chair of the Urban Affairs and Planning Department at Hunter College. He is author or editor of eleven books, including, most recently, When Mayors Take Charge: School Governance in the City and City Schools: Lessons from New York, the latter also published by Johns Hopkins.