| Author/Contributor(s): | Ansfield, Bench |
| Publisher: | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Date: | 08/19/2025 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Condition: | NEW |
Winner of the 2026 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History
Winner of the 2026 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Nonfiction
Winner of the 2026 Francis Parkman Prize for the Best Book in American History from the Society of American Historians
Winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner Award from the Organization of American Historians
Winner of the New York City Book Award
Winner of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia Literary Award
Nominated for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work-Nonfiction
Finalist for the Gotham Book Prize
Shortlisted for the 2026 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize
One of The New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2025
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2025
The Skipped History Podcast Best Book of the Year
"[R]evelatory...Deeply researched and masterfully told." --Brian Goldstone, New York Times Book Review
The explosive account of the arson wave that hit the Bronx and other American cities in the 1970s--and its legacy today.