Jonathan Mahler’s The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: 1986-1990.

"The tabs were this incredibly paradoxical force in New York during these years’ Jonathan Mahler said in his coversation with Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel. “On the one hand, they were totally polarizing, turning the world into into heroes and villains, good guys and bad guys — like comic books for adults. On the other hand, everyone is reading the Post and the News and Newsday, and they were unifying all of New York around these storylines.”