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...Ackermann's perspective is exactly what makes "You the Mayor?" an informative book--not only about Cambridge but city politics in general...
While Ackermann was mayor in 1972, a 16-year-old high-school dropout named Larry Largey was found dead in a police cell. A police autopsy claimed he died of a drug overdose. City activists claimed he was beaten to death by the police...
...fault: The Police Department that didn't teach its officers the job for which they were hired. The Housing Authority that ran the Towers as a slum. The School Department that made Towers and other project kids feel unwanted. And the city manager, Council, School Committee, and mayor who had suspected all that and had not managed to change...
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...
...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...