Inequality and One City: Bill de Blasio and the New York

Inequality and One City: Bill de Blasio and the New York Experiment, Year One

Bill de Blasioâ€™s election as mayor of New York captured the attention of a typically restless city. But it also made progressives across the countryâ€”and, indeed, around the worldâ€”sit up and take notice. With unprecedented popular support, de Blasio took office pledging to â€œput an end to economic and social inequalities that threaten to unravel the city we love.â€ Based on interviews with dozens of key figures in New York politics, including the mayor himself, Eric Altermanâ€™s new e-book is a rigorous, fascinating and indispensable account of what happened next.

It is, as he writes in the preface, â€œan attempt to move beyond the day-to-day headlines that dominate our political debate. By placing Bill de Blasioâ€™s words, and the actions of his administration, into a political, cultural, social, and intellectual context, we can see just how daunting the task he has set for himself really is: to use the power of the city government to make New York a fairer and more equal place for all its inhabitants, and to do so while executing the fundamental tasks of governance judiciously and efficiently.â€

If you want to understand what really went down during the first year of â€œthe
deBlasio experimentâ€â€”the face-off with Governor Cuomo over pre-K, the charter school battle, the epic clash with the NYPDâ€”Eric Alterman has the story.

â€œEric Altermanâ€™s â€œEquality and One City: Bill de Blasio and the New York Experiment, Year Oneâ€ (ebookNation) is a de Blasio boosterâ€™s handbook to how much the mayor has already accomplished and a sober reminder â€” no matter how many poor people vote for empathetic local candidates â€” of just how much Albany and Washington can scuttle his agenda.â€
â€”Sam Roberts, the New York Times
Country USA
Manufacturer The Nation Co. LP
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-02-09
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	The Nation Co. LP
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-02-09
Format	Kindle eBook

Inequality and One City: Bill de Blasio and the New York Experiment, Year One

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