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

Norman, Linwood

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9781962416214: When Mayor Doug Wilder Ruled Richmond: Strong-Arm Politics in Virginia's Capital City
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1962416216 ISBN 13: 9781962416214
Publisher: Brandylane Publishers, Inc., 2024

Synopsis

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.

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Publisher
Brandylane Publishers, Inc.
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1962416216
ISBN 13 
9781962416214
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
252
Rating
  • 4.41 out of 5 stars
    22 ratings by Goodreads