Filter By Subjects
Alcaldes Estados Unidos Teatro Belkin, Lisa 1960- Film adaptations Ciudades y pueblos Estados Unidos Teatro Low-income housing United States Drama Mini Series Municipal government Politics and government Racism United States Drama Small cities Politics and government Drama Vivienda Estados Unidos TeatroFilter By Subjects
Alcaldes Estados Unidos Teatro Belkin, Lisa 1960- Film adaptations Ciudades y pueblos Estados Unidos Teatro Low-income housing United States Drama Mini Series Municipal government Politics and government Racism United States Drama Small cities Politics and government Drama Vivienda Estados Unidos TeatroEarly, Steve
Summary: The People vs. Big Oil--how a working-class company town harnessed the power of local politics to reclaim their community Home to one of the largest oil refineries in the state, Richmond, California, was once a typical company town, dominated by Chevron. This largely nonwhite, working-class city of one hundred thousand suffered from poverty, pollution, and poorly funded public services. It had...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979 EARSummary: An urban epic set in Baltimore, where police detectives investigate cases involving the illegal drug trade, the seaport system, the city government and its bureaucracy, the school system, and the print news media.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WIREmanuel, Rahm
Summary: "At a time of anxiety about the effectiveness of our national government, Rahm Emanuel provides a clear vision, for both progressives and centrists, of how to get things done in America today--a bracing, optimistic vision of America's future from one of our most experienced and original political minds"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 352.23 EMAGolway, Terry
Summary: A journalist, historian, and expert on the Irish American experience tackles the common stereotypes and presents a revisionist version of the notoriously crooked Tammany Hall, describing the crucial social reforms and labor improvements they contributed.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.704 GOLHart, Lyndon H.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Virginia State Library and Archives 1985
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1 Hart,1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3755 V
Lainhart, Ann S.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New England Historic Genealogical Society 1996
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1 LAITraverse City (Mich.)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Press of Herald and Record Co. 1906
Copies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 348.774 Ordinances 1906Call number: R NEL 348.774 Ordinances 1927
Call number: R NEL 348.774 Ordinances 1943 Vol. 1
Anderson, Michelle W.
Summary: Decades of cuts to local government amidst rising concentrations of poverty have wreaked havoc on communities left behind by the modern economy. Some of these discarded places are rural. Others are big cities, small cities, or historic suburbs. Some vote blue, others red. Some are the most diverse communities in America, while others are nearly all white, all Latino, or all Black. All are...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.0973 ANDBomey, Nathan
Summary: At exactly 4:06 p.m. on July 18, 2013, the city of Detroit filed for bankruptcy. It was the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history—the Motor City had finally hit rock bottom. But what led to that fateful day, and how did the city survive the perilous months that followed? In Detroit Resurrected, Nathan Bomey delivers the inside story of the fight to save Detroit against impossible...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 BOMSummary: In an America generations removed from the greatest civil rights struggles of the 1960s, the young mayor of a mid-sized American city is faced with a federal court order that says he must build a small number of low-income housing units in the white neighborhoods of his town. His attempt to do so tears the entire city apart, paralyzes the municipal government and, ultimately, destroys the mayor...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016