Gabriel S. Tennen

Writer; author of a Vital City essay comparing Zohran Mamdani's 2025 mayoral run to the 1969 Mailer-Breslin campaign.

Gabriel S. Tennen is a writer whose October 2025 Vital City essay Bringing the Fun Back to Fun City draws an extended comparison between Zohran Mamdani’s 2025 New York mayoral campaign and the 1969 “51st State” mayoral bid of Mailer and Jimmy Breslin, finding in both a tradition of making city politics genuinely fun.

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• Bringing the Fun Back to Fun City | Jimmy Breslin | About this project

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Last updated: 2026-06-26