A city-wide school board election would elect four new members. Everyone expected "business as usual": south side conservatives would pick their candidates, who would win over those selected by middle class black and white liberals. Few people would get interested in the election, least of all the black residents on the north side who wouldn't care enough about their children's fate to show up at the polls.It didn't quite happen that way. here's the story of how it all began, what happened in the campaign and afterwards, who won and why and how, and what the election results meant for the City of St. Louis
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Rose Jonas is an organizational consultant. President of The Jonas Company, she specializes in executive coaching, hiring and career counseling. She is a television personality -- TV's "Job Doctor" -- dispensing career advice on local and national newscasts, and in speeches and workshops. Dr. Jonas teaches at Washington University (University College) in St. Louis, Missouri
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This review is from: The Campaign That Couldn't Be Won (Paperback)
In Mr. Holt's review of Dr. Jonas's Book, The Campaign That Couldn't Be Won" he asks the question, "What could possibly possess a fat and dowdy house to write a staggering book about a school board election she clearly didn't understand, nine years after the fact..." One might ask the question, "What could possibly possess Mr. Holt to write a review years after a book has been published and attack the author on the grounds of weight and the ability to run a household?" Are the accomplishments and writings of Winston Churchill and Benjamin Franklin suspect because they were portlier than some of their contemporaries? What a pathetic comment. Also, Dr. Jonas is not now and never was a housewife, which in itself is a worthy profession. She is a fulltime professional woman and a homemaker, which means that not only did she teach at Washington University and runs a consulting firm, but at the time the book was written, she also had the run a household for her husband and son and appeared weekly on Channel 5 News. But ultimately, what does any of this have to do with the quality of the writing, the content or veracity of the facts or the relevance of the work. When a review starts with a personal, inarticulate and clumsy attack, one can only disregard the rest.
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The Campaign That Couldn't Be Won,
By John Erwin (battle ground, wa United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Campaign That Couldn't Be Won (Paperback)
The writing is superb. The author is so good that Oprah's recommendation should be immediate. Read this book.
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