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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...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Learning a City From the Top Down | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

...Barbara Ackermann is an exception. Not only did she not grow up in Cambridge, she spent most of her childhood living in Europe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Outside Looking In | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Outside Looking In | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Outside Looking In | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Outside Looking In | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

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