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THE SAVAGE CITY is available in bookstores and through online booksellers March 2011.
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“An epic look at the racial animus, fear, and hatred that characterized [a] troubled decade. Drawing on interviews with former police and prosecutors, activists, hustlers, and journalists, English recounts a time of growing and visceral hostility between a police department steeped in corruption and a besieged black community that exploded in violence. . . . Through the lives of three ostensibly unrelated men, English peels back the underlying turmoil that led to the violent period and the unaddressed social ills that remain to this day.”

—Booklist (starred review)


“The Savage City is a necessary examination of the people, passions, and maligned principles by which New York City once lived and died. English has a magnificent sense of the manner in which people, landscape, and history are bound together. Every world is a corner and every corner is a world.”

—Colum McCann,
author of Let the Great World Spin


“T.J. English has mastered the hybrid narrative art form of social history and underworld thriller. The Savage City is a truly gripping read filled with unexpected twists and turns. Highly recommended.”

—Douglas Brinkley,
author of The Wilderness Warrior and The Great Deluge.


“Forget Vietnam— New York City in the 1960s and 1970s hosted its own civil war between a racist police force and a newly militant black underclass, according to this bare-knuckled true-crime saga. . . English paints a vivid, gritty panorama of a city wracked by racial insurgency, showing us precinct house backrooms where black suspects are beaten and white perps let off with a bribe; seething ghettos ready to riot at the next police shooting; and mean streets where the cops themselves face machine-gun fire. . . . A gripping, noirish retrospective of an era when brutal misrule sparked desperate rage.”

—Publishers Weekly

About The Author sectionhead
T.J. English on The Daily Show

The Daily Show— July 23, 2008

T.J. English at 2009 O'Neill Award gala

T.J. speaks at the 2009 IAW&A
Eugene O'Neill Award ceremony.

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Cuba Journal
A blog written from a Cuban-American perspective that focuses on a multitude of topics facing the island nation of Cuba.

News, Opinion and More About Cuba.

Miami Herald
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Writers from an extraordinarily vast range of backgrounds and abilities unite to promote, protect, and maintain important artistic and professional principles.

Irish Echo
The largest circulation Irish American weekly newspaper, with a 50-state subscription base. Founded in 1928, the national tabloid is on newsstands in major American cities every Wednesday.

The USA's most widely read Irish-American newspaper with a readership of 100,000 and with a newsstand presence in all major American and Irish cities.

The Narco News Bulletin
Online reports on the drug war from Latin America and elsewhere around the globe, with breaking news, analysis, investigative journalism, and translations of journalism from Mexico and other countries.

Online reports on the drug war from Latin America and elsewhere around the globe, with breaking news, analysis, investigative journalism, and translations of journalism from Mexico and other countries.

Blog del Narco
Stunning photos, videos, audio recordings and other dispatches from deep inside the Mexican narco war. The drug cartels sometimes use Blog del Narco to post videos of tortures, beheadings, and other atrocities, including messages to the public, law enforcement and the government. Not for the squeamish. In Spanish.

Stunning photos, videos, audio recordings and other dispatches from deep inside the Mexican narco war. The drug cartels sometimes use Blog del Narco to post videos of tortures, beheadings, and other atrocities, including messages to the public, law enforcement and the government. Not for the squeamish. In Spanish.

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Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Inside 97 Orchard, visitors take guided tours of apartments that recreate immigrant life in the 19th and 20th centuries. Along with a glimpse of the past, tours offer insights into current debates about immigration and public health.

A New York City Museum that tells the stories of immigrants who lived in 97 Orchard Street, a tenement built in 1863 on Manhattan's Lower East Side.