Roosevelt House

Name: The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: 1986-1990
Start: 2025-12-02T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-12-02T18:00:00-05:00
Location: Roosevelt House

212-650-3174

rhrsvp@hunter.cuny.edu

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Helen Zia is a writer and activist. She is the daughter of immigrants from China and was born and raised in New Jersey. Her latest book, Last Boat out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese who Fled Mao’s Revolution, was one of NPR’s Best Books and a finalist for a 2020 PEN America prize. Helen’s first book, Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People, about the civil rights struggles of Asian Americans, and it is still used as a foundational history text in colleges and high schools. She also wrote My Country Versus Me with nuclear physicist Wen Ho Lee, who was falsely accused by the FBI of being a spy.

A selection of Helen Zia’s books will be available for sale following the discussion.
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The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: 1986-1990

Bestselling author Jonathan Mahler (The Bronx is Burning) will discuss his sweeping new chronicle of four tumultuous years in 1980s New York that changed the city forever and anticipated the forces that would soon divide the nation at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College.