When Mayor Doug Wilder Ruled Richmond: Strong-Arm Politics in Virginia's Capital City - Hardcover

Norman, Linwood

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1962416216 ISBN 13: 9781962416214

Verlag: Brandylane Publishers, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

Our nation's first elected Black governor, L. Douglas Wilder, returned to public service in 2005 as the first popularly elected mayor of Richmond, Virginia, in sixty years. Despite his landslide election, voters may have had little idea what they were getting themselves into, as many were ill-prepared for Wilder's strong style of leadership. He had remarkable success in reducing crime, cutting government spending, and boosting economic vitality, but Wilder's relationship with City Council and the School Board-and the disagreements that ensued from both sides-tarnished his record as mayor. Author and former press secretary to the mayor, Linwood Norman, skillfully recounts the turmoil of Richmond's transition to the "strong mayor" model of local government during what was a memorable chapter in Richmond's rich political history that is still deliberated today, more than fifteen years after Wilder's charismatic tenure concluded.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Brandylane Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1962416216
• ISBN 13: 9781962416214
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 252
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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