Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City bar Jaffe explores how New York’s

Jaffe explores how New York’s evolving identities as an incubator and battleground for activists have made it a “machine for change

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Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City bar Jaffe explores how New York’sThe explosive account of the arson wave that hit the Bronx and other American cities in the 1970sand its legacy today. Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning! That legendary and apocryphal phrase, allegedly uttered by announcers during the 1977 World Series as flames rose above Yankee Stadium, seemed to encapsulate an entire era in this nations urban history. Across that decade, a wave of arson coursed through American cities, destroying entire