Michael O. Allen

Tag: Atlanta

  • History

    Douglas A. Blackmon reaches deep into history to re-examine some of our past: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II. This is how Random House, the publisher, described the book: In this groundbreaking historical exposé, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American…

  • Normal City? Are You Nuts?

    December 12, 1996 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN and JANE FURSE, Daily News Staff Writers New York ain’t normal, according to a new book — whereas Orange County, Calif., is. That’s Orange County as in Disneyland and the biggest municipal bankruptcy in history. Whaddaya mean New York is the “most abnormal” of American cities? Merely a…