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A Mayor's Life: Governing New York's Gorgeous Mosaic
David N. Dinkins
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Description for A Mayor's Life: Governing New York's Gorgeous Mosaic
hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 408 pages, Including an 8-pp. B/W photo insert on gloss. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJPR; BGHA; JPHL; JPR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 244 x 33. Weight in Grams: 662.
How did a scrawny black kid,the son of a barber and a domestic who grew up in Harlem and Trenton,become the 106th mayor of New York City? It's a remarkable journey. David Norman Dinkins was born in 1927, joined the Marine Corps in the waning days of World War II, went to Howard University on the G.I. Bill, graduated cum laude with a degree in mathematics in 1950, and married Joyce Burrows, whose father, Daniel Burrows, had been a state assemblyman well-versed in the workings of New York's political machine. It was his father-in-law who suggested the young mathematician might ... Read more
How did a scrawny black kid,the son of a barber and a domestic who grew up in Harlem and Trenton,become the 106th mayor of New York City? It's a remarkable journey. David Norman Dinkins was born in 1927, joined the Marine Corps in the waning days of World War II, went to Howard University on the G.I. Bill, graduated cum laude with a degree in mathematics in 1950, and married Joyce Burrows, whose father, Daniel Burrows, had been a state assemblyman well-versed in the workings of New York's political machine. It was his father-in-law who suggested the young mathematician might ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
PublicAffairs United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781610393010
SKU
V9781610393010
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About David N. Dinkins
David N. Dinkins is a professor at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs and the host of Dialogue with Dinkins" on WLIB radio in New York City. Peter Knobler has collaborated on several bestsellers, including Sumner Redstone's A Passion to Win and James Carville and Mary Matalin's All's Fair. The former editor of Crawdaddy magazine, Knobler has ... Read more
Reviews for A Mayor's Life: Governing New York's Gorgeous Mosaic
Sam Roberts, New York Times Book Review "An inspiring account of New York's first black mayor and the hopes he inherited, many of them dashed on the shoals of fiscal reality and a sometimes hapless search for consensus." Booklist "Dinkins trumpets his accomplishments as mayor and offers some insights into the boisterous New York political scene, the rise of Harlem's ... Read more