Book review: Familiar names in colourful, gritty romp across 1980s New York

Jonathan Mahler’s enthralling overview of the city benefits and suffers from the fact we know many of the dramatis personae because they remain in the public eye

Donald Trump, in 1987, flying aboard his Puma helicopter from New York City to Atlantic City, crops up in 'The Gods of New York' in all his technicolour glory.

• The Gods of New York: The Tumultuous Eighties, from Donald Trump to the Tompkins Square Riots 
• Jonathan Mahler 
• Hutchinson Heinemann, €29.00