Show Me A Hero: A Tale of Murder, Suicide, Race, and Redemption Audiobook (Free)

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Not in my own backyard — that’s the refrain commonly invoked simply by property owners who also oppose unwanted advancement. Such words presume a special ferocity when the advancement in question is usually public casing. Lisa Belkin penetrates the prejudices, common myths, and heated emotions stirred by the newest trend in public areas housing as she re-creates a landmark case in riveting details, showing how a proposal to build scattered-site public housing in middle-class neighborhoods nearly destroyed an entire city and permanently changed the lives of several of its citizens.

— Public casing projects are getting torn down throughout the United States. What will consider their place? Show Me a Hero explores the response.

— A significant and compelling function of narrative non-fiction in the custom of J. Anthony Lukas’s Common Ground.

— A sweeping yet intimate group family portrait that assesses the effects of public policy on individual human being lives.