{"product_id":"9781510730632","title":"Greed and Glory: How Doc Gooden, Donald Trump, Lawrence Taylor, Ed Koch, Rudy Giuliani, and the Mafia Ruled New York in the 1980s","description":"On October 28, 1986, just one day after winning one of the most thrilling World Series in history, the New York Mets were feted by more than two million fans with a parade through the city. In news accounts of event, there was a small aside, as this one in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e: \"Notable in his absence was the pitcher Dwight Gooden, who Mets officials later said had overslept.\"\u003cp\u003e No, the Mets' twenty-one-year-old phenom had not slept too late. He had not slept at all, in fact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e For Gooden, his postgame champagne celebration kicked off a cocaine binge that took him to a club in Long Island and wound up with him, wired, watching his teammates roll through the streets as he sat with strangers in a public housing project. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuch were the 1980s in New York City, a gilded era buttressed by fast money from a real estate boom and the explosion of Wall Street wealth. The Mets and Giants, bolstered by lightning-rod personalities like Gooden and Lawrence Taylor, brought the city sporting glory while its celebrity wealthy added a tabloid-friendly touch of intrigue and national envy. Iconoclastic real estate developer Donald Trump gained national celebrity for his deal-making skill and the flaunting of his outsize ego. Even mayor Ed Koch had gained coast-to-coast fame and mention as a potential future president.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeneath the opulence was a tenuous foundation, one that collapsed spectacularly over the last half of the decade. Away from the cameras focused on the city's nouvelle riches, New York was beset by crisis after crisis--homelessness, AIDS, crack cocaine, organized crime. The swell of outrage over the unwillingness of the city elite to address those problems took years to finally reach a tipping point. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough interviews and detailed research, \u003ci\u003eGreed and Glory\u003c\/i\u003e gives the narrative of New York during these times, tracing the arc of its sports heroes and celebrities of that era, from their memorable highs to their ultimate lows.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Skyhorse Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47062366224624,"sku":"9781510730632","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781510730632_p0.jpg?v=1763722912","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781510730632","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}