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Sleeping with the Mayor: A True Story

Sleeping with the Mayor: A True Story


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Sleeping with the Mayor is a study of power and powerlessness, race, class, and individual personalities presented as vividly as in a novel. The cast of characters includes Duke York, the former jazz musician haunted by the separation from his wife and daughters; Marc Greenberg, the well-intentioned but naive organizer; Ellen McCarthy, who finds herself coming alive after an unhappy marriage by working with the homeless; Larry Locke, the Vietnam vet who becomes the toast of New York City at Kochville's height; and Mayor Koch himself, a politician's politician, facing his Waterloo.The ad hoc community of Kochville springs up overnight when the participants in an all-night vigil protesting homelessness become semi-permanent residents of City Hall Park. John Jiler, at the time a freelance writer for The Village Voice, stumbles on this community in its first twenty-four hours of existence when he goes to the park for his morning coffee and newspaper. Jiler soon sublets his apartment to live in Kochville, where he watches a democracy form at its most fundamental level. In the shadow of City Hall, but with no one to guide them, the members of the homeless community must decide how to organize themselves, how to structure their meetings, and what rules the "residents" of their community must live by. At the same time, the machinations of democracy are played out on a larger scale, as Koch's response to the community that bears his name is mediated by special interest pressures, popular opinion, his own upcoming mayoral election against David Dinkins, and even a presidential race.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781886913141
  • Publisher: Ruminator Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Ruminator Books
  • Height: 239 mm
  • No of Pages: 361
  • Spine Width: 34 mm
  • Weight: 680 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1886913145
  • Publisher Date: 01 Aug 1997
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: A True Story
  • Width: 163 mm


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