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DIANA DILLAWAY
(Ventura, CA)
"WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING" "Diana Dillaway has meticulously set out the
causes--economic and social--of the decline of Buffalo, N.Y., once the
fastest growing and most promising city in the nation.
Slowly eating away at Buffalo's vitality were economic forces beyond the
community's control, and social and class conflicts that were clearly within
the town's ability to remedy. It's all there--from a hard-bitten Irish mayor
who scorned blacks, to bankers who didn't want university 'radicals' walking
the same streets as the power elite.
This compact volume is must reading for any North American student of urban
history. It ought to be in every school and college library in Upstate New
York. There ought to be forums and college level courses built around this
study in Western New York."
-Douglas L. Turner, Washington Bureau Chief, The Buffalo News.
“This book provides a rare inside look at the machinations and power plays
by elite banking and development interests whose focus on narrow
self-interest contributed to the decline of a once-thriving major city. We
are seldom able to hear these stories in the clear and graphic fashion they
are presented here.”
-G. William Domhoff, Research Professor in Sociology,
University of California, Santa Cruz
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