to Avalon Equity Partners. He established the paper as an independent thinking and often irreverent voice, which directly competed with the city's more traditionally liberal downtown paper, The Village Voice. Books Alone with the President (Blast Books, 1994) () E: Reflections on the Birth of the Elvis Faith (Blast Books, 1995) () Rock 'Til You Drop: The Decline from Rebellion to Nostalgia (Versso, 2003) () Black Like You: Blackface, Whiteface, Insult & Imitation in American Popular Culture (Tarcher, 2007) () The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village (Ecco, 2013) () City of Sedition: The History of New York City During the Civil War (Twelve, 2016) () Victory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers during World War II (Twelve, 2018) () References External links John Strausbaugh's Official Website American non-fiction writers 1951 births Living people New York Press people American newspaper editors The New York Times writers The Washington Post people Place of birth missing (living people)