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A Plague on Your Houses: How New York Was Burned Down and National Public Health Crumbled UPDATE:Default Title the children try to makeAuthor Contributor(s): Wallace, Deborah; Wallace, Rodrick Publisher: Verso Date: 11 17 2001 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW A Plague on Your Houses is a scorching indictment of the decision to close fire companies in New York in the 1970s and a frightening study of the way misguided and malevolent social policy can spark a chain reaction of enormous and unforeseen urban collapse.