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...Barabara Ackermann...
...Mayor?" is written from this outsider's perspective. While 10 years on the Cambridge City Council--including two as mayor--should qualify Barbara Ackermann as an expert in the quirks of city government, one gets the sense that she never really feels confident about her abilities. Rules of politics and government that are second nature to a native like Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci, now the mayor, are an unfolding mystery to a relative newcomer like Ackermann...
...Ackermann's perspective is exactly what makes "You the Mayor?" an informative book--not only about Cambridge but city politics in general...
...Ackermann does not lecture. She describes the the things she learned while trying to solve some of her constituents' problems...
SOME lessons come easily. In the early chapter "Nine Ayes," Ackermann describes her discovery that much of the council's business is simply a matter of form--her fellow councillors approve virtually any order she brings them, as long as it does not involve money. Attempts to deal with the semiautonomous Redevelopment Authority teach her the three I's that often dominate city administration--inertia, indolence and incompetence...