Resources

ARTICLES

Breslin, Jimmy. “Is Lindsay Too Tall to be Mayor?” New York Magazine, July 28, 1969.

New York City in Crisis. Series. New York Herald Tribune, January 25, 1965.*

Cloward, Richard A. and Piven, Frances Fox. “A Strategy to End Poverty.” The Nation, May 2, 1966.

Greenfield, Jeff. “Reading John Lindsay’s Face.” New York Times Magazine, July 29, 1973.

Huxtable, Ada Louise. “Adding Up the Score.” New York Herald Tribune, January 20, 1974.

Kempton, Murray. “John Lindsay Begins.” New York World-Telegram, May 14, 1965.

“A Mayor of Vision.” Editorial. New York Times, December 31, 1973.*

“Mayor Wagner’s Gift.” Editorial. New York Times, February 13, 1991.*

Newfield, Jack. “A Mayor of Vision." New York Post, December 21, 2000.

Pileggi, Nicholas. “Inside Lindsay’s Head.” New York Magazine, January 4, 1971.

Schaap, Dick. “Such an Amusing City.” New York Herald Tribune, January 7, 1966.*

Second Inaugural Address. New York Times, January 1, 1970.*

*Articles from the New York Times and the New York Herald Tribune can be found at the Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin. The website is www.cah.utexas.edu/collections/index.php. Go to the News Media History Collection. New York Times articles can also be found at www.query.nytimes.com/search/archive.html.

VIDEOS

A series of ten videos produced for the Museum of the City of New York about John Lindsay, events during his administration, and the mood of the times in which he served.

A series of television commercials from the two mayoral runs and one presidential primary run of John Lindsay. Courtesy of The Garth Group.
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VIDEO RESOURCES

The Municipal Archives
www.nyc.gov

The William S. Paley Center for Radio and Television Broadcasting
www.paleycenter.org

NBC News Archives
www.nbcnewsarchives.com

BOOKS AND REPORTS

Auletta, Ken. The Streets Were Paved with Gold. Random House, 1979.

Brecher, Charles and Raymond D. Horton. Power Failure: New York City Politics and Policy Since 1960. Oxford University Press, 1992.

Button, Daniel E. Lindsay: A Man for Tomorrow. Random House, 1965.

Buckley Jr., William F. The Unmaking of a Mayor. Viking, 1966.

Cannato, Vincent J. The Ungovernable City: John Lindsay and his Struggle to Save New York. Basic, 2001.

Cuomo, Mario M. Forest Hills Diary: The Crisis of Low-Income Housing. Vintage, 1974.

Commission on the Cities in the '70's. The State of the Cities. John V. Lindsay and Fred Harris, Co-chairmen. Praeger, 1972.

Fact Finding Commission on Columbia Disturbances. Crisis at Columbia. Vintage, 1968.

Gottehrer, Barry. The Mayor’s Man. Doubleday, 1965.

Hentoff, Nat. A Political Life: The Education of John V. Lindsay. Knopf, 1969.

Horton, Raymond. Municipal Labor Relations in New York City: Lessons of the Lindsay-Wagner Years. Praeger, 1973.

Klein, Woody. Lindsay’s Promise: The Dream That Failed. Macmillan, 1970.

Knapp Commission Report on Police Corruption. George Brazillier, 1972.

Lindsay, John V. The City. Norton, 1969.

Lindsay, John V. Journey into Politics. Dodd, Meade, 1967.

Morris, Charles R. The Cost of Good Intentions: New York City and the Liberal Experiment, 1960-1975. Norton, 1980.

Pilat, Oliver. Lindsay’s Campaign: A Behind–the-Scenes Diary. Beacon Press, 1969.

Podair, Jerald E. The Strike That Changed New York: Blacks, Whites, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis. Yale, 2002.

Ravitch, Diane. The Great School Wars: Why Teachers Strike. Anchor, 1970.

Roberts, Sam, ed. America's Mayor: John V. Lindsay and the Reinvention of New York. Columbia University Press and the Museum of the City of New York, 2010.

Siegel, Fred. The Future Once Happened Here: New York, D.C., L.A., and the Fate of America's Big Cities. Encounter Books, 2000.

Sleeper, Jim. The Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York. Norton, 1990.

U.S. Riot Commission, Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders. Otto Kerner, Chairman, John V. Lindsay, Co-chairman, 1968.