JOHN LINDSAY'S CONFLICTED LEGACY

The Boston Globe | August 26, 2001| | Copyright

John Lindsay, who died last December after a decade of disease and obscurity, had the misfortune of becoming the mayor of New York during one of its ugliest eras - a time, as novelist Saul Bellow's Mr. Sammler put it, when "you could smell collapse." His two terms, from 1966 to 1973, were pocked by racial violence, fiscal crisis, massive strikes, filthy streets, and soaring crime, all boiling up through the cracks erupting nationwide over civil rights and the Vietnam War. Handsome, patrician, and Yale-educated, John Vliet Lindsay rode into office on high hopes and the conviction that the ...

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