Word: bookings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...book's most moving scenes, Ackermann enters the Towers and confronts Largey's 16-year old peers, sharing their anger and desperation. "Other children were weeping," she says of the moment. "This was Larry's wake we were at. I wept...
SINCE the advent of stream-of-consciousness, the mark of a good book has never been a plot. Writers, like politicians and preachers, have grown increasingly interested in style...
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...
Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book...