New York City Politics Book

This was NOT a fun book. Reading it felt like working - a bad job. But it was an important book too. So much attention is focused on US politics and some even on state politics. A book like this shines the light properly on local government and points out how amazingly complicated it all is. Granted, ain't no city as great and intriguing as New York City, so we can't claim this book has an application to all city governments. Yet all local governments have their complexities. Also, one can see why mayors of New York City can make a more convincing case for national leadership than most US governors can make. In the number of people, the dollars floating about, and the heterogeneity of the population, mayors have a lot on their plates. Not a fun read, but a necessary one.