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- Title: Inequality and One City: Bill de Blasio and the New York Experiment, Year One
- Author : Eric Alterman
- Release Date : January 13, 2015
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 2291 KB
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Bill de Blasioâs election as mayor of New York captured the attention of a typically restless city. But it also made progressives across the countryâand, indeed, around the worldâsit up and take notice. With unprecedented popular support, de Blasio took office pledging to âput 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 Altermanâs new e-book is a rigorous, fascinating and indispensable account of what happened next.
It is, as he writes in the preface, âan attempt to move beyond the day-to-day headlines that dominate our political debate. By placing Bill de Blasioâs 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 âthe de Blasio experimentââthe face-off with Governor Cuomo over pre-K, the charter school battle, the epic clash with the NYPDâEric Alterman has the story.
âEric Altermanâs âEquality and One City: Bill de Blasio and the New York Experiment, Year Oneâ (ebookNation) is a de Blasio boosterâs 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
âSam Roberts, the New York Times