High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing

by Ben Austen

Book Overview

Joining the ranks of Evicted, The Warmth of Other Suns , and classic works of literary non-fiction by Alex Kotlowitz and J. Anthony Lukas, High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago's Cabrini-Green, America's most iconic public housing project. Built in the 1940s atop an infamous Italian slum, Cabrini-Green grew to twenty-three towers and a population of 20,000--all of it...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062235060
• ISBN13: 9780062235060
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Harper
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 8.9"