Word: ackermann
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...most important accomplishment of "You the Mayor?" is the way Ackermann documents the day-to-day frustration of city government, how she responded to the anger of a city unable to solve its problems...
...Barbara Ackermann is an exception. Not only did she not grow up in Cambridge, she spent most of her childhood living in Europe...
...result, when she was elected to the School Committee in 1961 and to the City Council in 1967, Ackermann says she had to learn Cambridge from the ground...
...writing "You the Mayor?": The Education of a City Politician, a reflection on her political career, Ackermann says she tried to retain a stranger's perspective...
...Ackermann says she also tried to avoid the chches of political memoirs. "I wanted to write the kind of book that I would like to read," she says. "I used a lot of dialogue and worked up to a climax because you have to be kind to your reader...