A Prayer for the City (Paperback)

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・キャンセル不可の商品】：2週間~4週間でお届け（お急ぎの方はご遠慮ください。）　／　【本の説明】448ページ　132*203mm　言語：English　395g　ISBN：9780679744948　／　【本の内容】Current Affairs/Urban Studies "An extraordinary book an insider's account of the dailyworkings of a big-city administration."--Witold Rybczynski The New York Review of BooksA 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 10000 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 citizens in crisis: a woman fig