Prayer for the City

Name: Prayer for the City
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ISBN: 9780679744948

ISBN-10: 0679744940

ISBN-13: 9780679744948

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Authors: Buzz Bissinger, Buzz Bissinger

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Current Affairs/Urban Studies "An extraordinary book, an insider's account of the daily workings of a big-city administration." --Witold Rybczynski, The New York Review of Books A Prayer for the City is Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Buzz Bissinger's true epic of Philadelphia mayor Ed Rendell, an utterly unique, unorthodox, and idiosyncratic leader who will do anything to save 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 the while bearing in mind the eternal fickleness of constituents whose favor may hinge on a missed garbage pick-up or an overzealous meter maid. It is also the story of…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/29/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 5.24" wide x 7.97" long x 0.96" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Buzz Bissinger is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of four books, including the New York Times bestseller 3 Nights in August and Friday Night Lights , which has sold two million copies and inspired a film and TV franchise. He is a contributing editor for Vanity Fair and a sports columnist for The Daily Beast . He has written for the New York Times , The New Republic , Time and many other publications.