Emily Brooks for “Gotham’s War within a War: Policing and the Birth of Law-and-Order Liberalism in World War II-Era New York City.”

Come join us and Emily Brooks for her book “Gotham’s War within a War: Policing and the Birth of Law-and-Order Liberalism in World War II-Era New York City.”

Emily Brooks is a historian whose work specializes in urban history, U.S. history, histories of policing, women’s and gender history, and African American history. She is the author of Gotham’s War within a War: Policing and the Birth of Law-and-Order Liberalism in World War II-Era New York City (UNC Press 2023). Her work has also been published in the Journal of Urban History, the Journal of Policy History, the Washington Post, the Gotham Blog, and The Metropole, among other places. She is a curriculum writer at the New York Public Library.