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

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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
Author	Eric Alterman
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781940489186
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	The Nation Co. LP
Manufacturer	The Nation Co. LP
NumberOfPages	185
PublicationDate	2015-02-09
Publisher	The Nation Co. LP
ReleaseDate	2015-02-09
Studio	The Nation Co. LP

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

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