Hardcover. Stated 1st edition HARDCOVER with dustjacket 1990 Norton. Book Sale INKSTAMP inside back cover. Clean text; pages bright; binding tight. Average edge-crumpling to jacket. 345pp, Index, Notes. Language: English. NOTE: Cannot ship outside U.S. via Global Priority--Surface or Airmail only. 'An editorial writer for New York Newsday , Sleeper here offers a fair, tough-minded airing of New York City's racial tensions and animosities on all sides. Countering those black leaders and white leftists who cast New York City as another Johannesburg or as Up South, he sees hope for resuscitating the fragile 1960s consensus of interracial fair play battered by rising urban crime, poverty, black extremists' divisiveness and white racism. Sleeper spotlights constructive, predominantly black community-based organizations that have adapted the tactics of the late activist Saul Alinsky to confront establishment figures, including Mayor David Dinkins, fixture of the Harlem elite. As timely as today's ugly headlines, this blend of history and reportage seemingly spares no one in its search for common ground.'--Publishers Weekly, 1990.