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A Prayer for the City

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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of Friday Night Lights, the heart-wrenching and hilarious true story of an American city on its knees and a man who will do anything to reserve it.

A Prayer for the City is acclaimed journalist Buzz Bissinger’s true epic of Philadelphia mayor Ed Rendell, an utterly unique, unorthodox, and idiosyncratic leader willing to go to any length for the sake of his city: take unions head on, personally lobby President Clinton to save 10,000 defense jobs, or wrestle Smiley the Pig on Hot Dog Day—all of the whilst allowing for the eternal fickleness of constituents whose favor may hinge on a missed garbage pick-up or an overzealous meter maid. Additionally it is the story of citizens in crisis: a woman fighting endlessly to give her great-grandchildren a better life, a father of six who may lose his job at the Navy Shipyard, and a policy analyst whose experiences as a crime victim tempt her to abandon her job and ideals. “Fascinating, humane” (The New Yorker) and alive with detail and insight, A Prayer for the City describes the rare combination of political courage and optimism that can be the only hope for The usa’s urban centers.
We’ve had our share of “season with the team” books about basketball, baseball, and football, so why not a book about an event of political importance: an insider’s account of a whole term of a big city mayor? And it might as well be about one of The usa’s best, most interesting mayors, Philadelphia’s Ed Rendell. Buzz Bissinger follows Rendell, his chief of staff, and four other Philadelphians through four years of his sincere, flamboyant struggle against Philadelphia’s crushing poverty–four years of dealing with the staff, the press, the constituents, and the feds. It doesn’t end with the eradication of the city’s many social ills, but it does end with a second term, and with hope.

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