San Antonio College Library

"Cockrell recalls her life as a public servant in San Antonio, Texas, and discusses her four terms as the city's first woman mayor, between 1975 and 1991, and her service on numerous municipal commissions, civic boards, foundations, and conservancies in the 1990s and into the early twenty-first century"--

Depicts the life and political career of Henry Cisneros and discusses his policies as mayor of San Antonio, Texas.

In his sophisticated, savvy, charismatic, fifty-year career, Mayor Coleman Young has been called many things, and one of them is the most powerful black politician in American history. His account of his epic journey from "Big Time Red" on the Prohibition streets of Detroit to five terms as the city's mayor looks back on decades of activity paralleling every modern African-American movement. Young's family moved from Alabama to Detroit's Black Bottom...

Mayor Edward Rendell will do almost anything for Philadelphia. He will clean the bathrooms in City Hall, endure a joint appearance with Mickey Mouse, and personally lobby President Clinton to keep jobs in the city. He is that rare politician who is larger than life in his ambitions, compassion, and flaws - a man wise enough to see the comic absurdity of his job, yet crazy enough to think he can actually revive his declining city. To succeed, Rendell...

Explores the life and career of Richard J. Daley, one of the most powerful politicians of the twentieth century.