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...Ackermann writes beautifully. "You the Mayor?" reads more like a novel than a political memoir. But the book begins to fall apart after the discussion of Largey's death...
...Ackermann's treatment of her next four years on the council seem tacked on to the end of the book. Although the content remains fascinating, the chapters drift away from the emotion at Roosevelt Towers...
...epilogue containing Ackermann's advice to council newcomers seems similarly out-of-place. "You the Mayor?" is most intriguing when it describes Ackermann's development as a politician, instead of the lessons she learns. By adopting the tactics of fiction, Ackermann prepares her readers for more than they...
THERE are also notable omissions. Ackermann makes scant mention of the problems she faced as Cambridge's first woman mayor--perhaps because woman councillors were commonplace by the time she took office...
Although she discusses the growing rift during the years 1972-73 between the CCA and one of its original founders, Councillor Edward A. Crane '38, Ackermann makes no mention of the final day of the 1973 council session, when Crane and another CCA councillor broke ranks and tried to repeal the city's rent control ordinance...