Research Catalog

Title

A mayor's life : governing New York's gorgeous mosaic / David N. Dinkins ; with Peter Knobler.

Author

Dinkins, David N.

Publication

New York : PublicAffairs, [2013]

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Details

Additional Authors

Knobler, Peter

Description

xii, 385 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

The former mayor--the son of a barber and a domestic who grew up in Harlem and Trenton--discusses his journey to becoming the 106th mayor of New York City.

Subject

• Dinkins, David N
• Since 1951
• Mayors > New York (State) > New York > Biography
• New York (N.Y.) > Politics and government > 1951-

Genre/Form

• collective biographies.
• Biographies
• Biographies.

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Leonard Riggio -- 1. Trenton Makes, the World Takes -- 2. The Education of a Ditch Digger -- 3. Home in Harlem -- 4. "Walk in My Shoes" -- 5. From Sugar to Shit in a New York Minute -- 6. Borough President for Life -- 7. The Race for Mayor -- 8. Attacking the Problems, Not the Victims -- 9. Safe Streets, Safe City -- 10. From "Dave, Do Something!" to "Mayor Cool" -- 11. Net Gain -- 12. Mandela -- 13. Crown Heights -- 14. Race Against Rudy -- Postscript -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

ISBN

• 9781610393010 (hbk.)
• 1610393015 (hbk.)
• 9781610393027 (ebk.) (canceled/invalid)
• 1610393023 (ebk.) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2013000769

OCLC

• 826322884
• SCSB-11434719

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library