Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City and the division of labor

and the division of labor deepens until it leaves two classes

This is the kind of food to celebrate every season of life

the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble

Tara decides to head north by train in search of winter

Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City and the division of labor"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 nation's urban history. Across that decade, a wave of arson coursed through American cities, destroying entire neighborhoods home to poor communities of color. Yet as historian Bench Ansfield demonstrates in Born in Flames, the