This engaging account of political initiation, campaigns, and service in elected offices of increasing responsibility will interest and entertain a wide range of readers. Ackermann's experience as Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts, offers important lessons for the political volunteer and insights for the student of politics. It is a rich resource for teachers of government, urban politics, and public administration. Through the author's eyes we see the issues, the problems, and the people that make a modern city so vital and diverse a place, and its leadership and management so delicate and complex an undertaking. Barbara Ackermann's engaging account of her years as a city politician in Cambridge shows how elected and appointed officials and civil servants work together as they grapple with issues voters want action on, deal with political fights for positions of power, and cope with outside forces, such as the anti-war riots and protests of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The events and people portrayed in this volume represent the best and the worst of local government. Education of a Mayor not only recounts how one elected official learned her job, it also reveals much about how the system can work and describes what happens when it doesn't work.
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BARBARA ACKERMANN, educated at Smith College, has been active in politics at the local and state levels for thirty years. Beginning in 1962, she served sixteen years as an elected official of Cambridge, Massachusetts--six on the School Committee and ten on the City Council.
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1972. Our home phone may ring at any hour of the twenty-four. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
testifying table, traffic czar, bicycle committee, day care woman, nine ayes, parking devices, white brochure, teen centers, city manager, other councillors, tactical force, city solicitor Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Harvard Square, Inner Belt, John Corcoran, Public Works, Councillor Vellucci, East Cambridge, Walter Sullivan, Central Square, Jim Sullivan, Frank Duehay, James Leo, Saundra Graham, David Wylie, Connie Wheeler, Henry Owens, Justin Grey, North Cambridge, Mayor Vellucci, Councillor Crane, Boston Globe, Cambridge Street, Jimmy Fitz, Lieutenant Gallagher, Lieutenant Pisani, New York New!
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1972. Our home phone may ring at any hour of the twenty-four. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
testifying table, traffic czar, bicycle committee, day care woman, nine ayes, parking devices, white brochure, teen centers, city manager, other councillors, tactical force, city solicitor Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Harvard Square, Inner Belt, John Corcoran, Public Works, Councillor Vellucci, East Cambridge, Walter Sullivan, Central Square, Jim Sullivan, Frank Duehay, James Leo, Saundra Graham, David Wylie, Connie Wheeler, Henry Owens, Justin Grey, North Cambridge, Mayor Vellucci, Councillor Crane, Boston Globe, Cambridge Street, Jimmy Fitz, Lieutenant Gallagher, Lieutenant Pisani, New York New!
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- The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton on page 250
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