Frank Rizzo: The Last Big Man in Big City America

Paolantonio, S.A.

ISBN 10: 0940159279 / ISBN 13: 9780940159273

Published by Camino Books, Philadelphia, 1994

About this Item

8vo, 405 pp., Inscribed & signed by the author on the title page.

Seller Inventory # 119074

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Frank Rizzo: The Last Big Man in Big City America
• Publisher: Camino Books, Philadelphia
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0940159279
• ISBN 13: 9780940159273
• Binding: softcover
• Illustrator: Illus. with photos
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine copy
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • American History

About this title

Synopsis

Here is the 10th anniversary edition of the first full-scale biography of Frank Rizzo, one of the most beloved and feared public figures in urban American history. Sweeping and finely detailed, this is a work of scholarship that reads like a novel, packed with colorful new details and revealing new stories about a man whose life demonstrated how the force of personality can affect history.

About the Author

Formerly a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer, S.A. PAOLANTONIO now works for ESPN. JOHN F. TIMONEY served as the police commissioner of Philadelphia.