Download or read book Dont Call Me Boss written by Michael Weber and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 1988-02-15 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The death of David Leo Lawrence in 1966 ended a fifty-year career of major influence in American politics. In a front-page obituary, the New York Times noted that Lawrence, the longtime mayor of Pittsburgh, governor of Pennsylvania, and power in Democratic national politics, disliked being called Boss. But, the Times noted, "he was one anyway."Certainly Lawrence was a consumate politician. Born in a poor, working-class neighborhood, in the present-day Golden Triange of Pittsburgh, he was from boyhood an astute student of politics and a devoted Democrat. Paying minute attention to every detail at the ward and precinct level, he revived the moribund Democratic party of Pittsburgh and fashioned a machine that upset the long-entrenched Republican organization in 1932.When "Davy" Lawrence, as he was affectionately known, won the gubernatorial election in 1958, he became the first Roman Catholic governor of Pennsylvania and the oldest. But he achieved his greatest public recognition as mayor of Pittsburgh. Taking office in 1945, at the close of World War II, this stalwart Democrat formed an alliance with the predominantly Republican business community to bring about the much acclaimed Pittsburgh Renaissance, transforming the downtown business district and persuading many large corporations to retain their national headquarters in Pittsburgh. In 1958 the editors of Fortune magazine name Pittsburgh as one of the eight best administered cities in America.Don't Call Me Boss examines the lengthy career of this remarkable politician. Using over one hundred interviews, as well as extensive archival material, Michael Weber demonstrates how Lawrence was able to balance his intense political drive and devotion to the Democratic party with the larger needs of his city and state. Although his administration was not free of controversy, as indicated by the city's police and free work scandals. Lawrence showed that it was possible to make the transition from nineteenth-century political boss to modern municipal manager. He was one of the few politicians of the century to do so. When the undisputed bosses of other American cities - the Curleys, Pendergasts, and Hagues - were out of power and disgraced, Lawrence was elected governor of Pennsylvania.More than twenty years after his death, David L. Lawrence and his success in rebuilding the city of Pittsburgh continue to serve as an example of effective urban leadership.
Download or read book Don t Call Me Boss written by Michael P. Weber and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 1988 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography of David L. Lawrence, the best of the city bosses, who became mayor of Pittsburgh, modern municipal manager, governor of Pennsylvania, and a power in national politics.
Download or read book Challenging the Growth Machine written by Barbara Ferman and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic development and urban growth are the contested grounds of urban politics. Business elites and politicians tend to forge "pro-growth" coalitions centered around downtown development while progressive and neighborhood activists counter with a more balanced approach that features a strong neighborhood component. Urban politics is often shaped by this conflict, which has intellectual as well as practical dimensions. In some cities, neighborhood interests have triumphed; in others, the pro-growth agenda has prevailed. In this illuminating comparative study, Barbara Ferman demonstrates why neighborhood challenges to pro-growth politics were much more successful in Pittsburgh than they were in Chicago. Operating largely in the civic arena, Pittsburgh's neighborhood groups encountered a political culture and institutional structure conducive to empowering neighborhood progressivism in housing and economic development policymaking. In contrast, the pro-growth agenda in Chicago was challenged in the electoral arena, which was dominated by machine, ward-based politicians who regarded any independent neighborhood organizing as a threat. Consequently, neighborhood demands for policymaking input were usually thwarted. Besides revealing why the development policies of two important American cities diverged, Ferman's unique comparative approach to this issue significantly expands the scope of urban analysis. Among other things, it provides the first serious study to incorporate the civic sector-neighborhood politics-as an important component of urban regimes. Ferman also emphasizes institutional and cultural factors-often ignored or relegated to residual roles in other studies-and expounds on their influence in shaping local politics and policy. To add an analytical and normative dimension to urban analysis, she focuses on the "non-elite" actors, not just the economic and political elites who compose governing coalitions. Ultimately, Ferman takes a more holistic and balanced view of large cities than is typical for urban studies as she argues that neighborhoods are an important, integral part of what cities are and can be. For that reason especially, her work will have a profound impact upon our understanding of urban politics.
Download or read book Ask a Manager written by Alison Green and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together
Download or read book Don t Worry My Boss Husband written by Liu Yueliu and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-04-17 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A childhood sweetheart for thirteen years, the bride isn't her!" "Ye Beichen, I hate you —" "Shhh!" "Stop messing around, go to sleep!" "Four years later, the chubby girl became a goddess and was able to wake up a vegetable with a single needle. From now on, she would be surrounded by demons!" Young Master Ye, we have nothing to do with each other since a long time ago! " [Previous Chapter] [Table of Contents] [Next Chapter] It used to be, it is now, and it will be in the future. I won't let you off even in my next life!
Download or read book 100 Love from the Boss 04 Anthology written by Wu Mo Xi and published by BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.. This book was released on 2022-12-22 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Xia Xiaoluo never expected that a takeout delivery would change her life forever. The rainy night, that insane man and the thing he forced her to do, were the things Xia Xiaoluo earnestly prayed to forget about. However, Ling Tianyi, the man who violated her, would not let Xia Xiaoluo go that easily. Being the youngest and richest man in City A, Ling had the reason to believe it must be dramatically easy to occupy the little poor girl. To his surprise, however, he found it unexpectedly difficult to obtain Xia Xiaoluo¡¯s love. Urged to get married by his parents, Ling Tianyi had a thought in mind. Will Ling Tianyi get his way? What a dramatic love story will they create? It¡¯s time to find out.
Download or read book New York written by Edward Rutherfurd and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2009-11-10 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant mix of battle, romance, family struggles, and personal triumphs, New York gloriously captures the search for freedom and prosperity at the heart of America's history. A blockbuster masterpiece that combines breath-taking scope with narrative immediacy, this grand historical epic traces the history of New York through the lenses of several families: The Van Dycks, a wealthy Dutch trading family; the Masters, scions of an English merchant clan torn apart during the Revolution; the Hudsons, slaves who fight for their freedom over several generations; the Murphys, who escape the Famine in Ireland and land in the chaotic slum of Five Points; the Rewards, robber barons of the Gilded Age; the Florinos, an immigrant Italian clan who work building the great skyscrapers in the 1920s; and the Rabinowitzs, who flee anti-semitism in Europe and build a new life in Brooklyn. Over time, the lives of these families become intertwined through the most momentous events in the fabric of America: The founding of the colonies; the Revolution; the growth of New York as a major port and trading centre; the Civil War; the Gilded Age; the explosion of immigration and the corruption of Tammany Hall; the rise of New York as a great world city in the early 20th-century; the trials of World War II, the tumult of the 1960s; the near-demise of the city in the 1970s; its roaring rebirth in the 1990s; culminating in the World Trade Center attacks at the beginning of the new century.
Download or read book Aura of Peril written by Camille Mariani and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wedding ring with a curse from long ago, a honeymoon in cold Florida, a militia group led by a delusional general with plans for revolution these highlight the first month of married life for Astrid and Abram.
Download or read book Plays written by Harry Lee Newton and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pilsner and Poppyseed the Two German Gazabos written by Harry Lee Newton and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beauty Goes Astray written by Yi Ke and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-07-18 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impoverished boss, Ike, was an unlucky guy. When he just arrived at the new unit, he found out that his female boss was a peerless beauty that he had provoked. What's more, he inadvertently discovered her boss's top secret.
Download or read book South Texas Never Raided written by Jings Chen and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bob Jackson, a young New York newsman, went to California with purpose to investigate a retired hit mans life story that led him an idea to go to El Paso ,Texas, for details of the hiding border truth; his fate put him into the net connecting drug cartels and law enforcement forces on the both sides of the United States and Mexican border down to Rosario, Argentina, where Sinoloa cartel from Mexico began to establish its new drug paradise with support of new raised local cartel Los Monos; a story tells you how an innocent newsman turned to be a DEA agent but when man makes plan, God used to make steps. This is an imaginary tale that reflects the similar situation had affected the whole American earth for many decades and that just likes an invisible killer hiding inside the whole Pan American soil.... People lost their own liberty while money talks.
Download or read book My Boss s Kitten written by Yumi Hisawa and published by Kodansha America LLC. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After finally getting along (?) with bucho’s nephew, Hiroshi, Aya has gotten even closer to her beloved, and as a reward for doing her best over the last week, Aya embarks on her first hot springs trip with him! She gets to see bucho in a yukata ... and even in glasses! What’s more, she gets to share an exciting and steamy open-air bath with him ... Here’s another episode in Yumi Hisawa’s dangerous-and-heart-throbbing cohabitation love story!
Download or read book The Claim Adjuster and the Storms of Life written by Robert N. Hatch and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-09-09 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no available information at this time.
Download or read book Scum Valley written by Matthew Ellks and published by Matthew Ellks. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book follows the local boardriding culture through a period of decadence and high times. It is the first book of a trilogy about the challenges that faced the subterranean surfing culture as it began losing its heritage to the yuppies who took advantage of negative gearing in the late 80s and started buying up Bondi. As property values and rates climbed, school enrollments fell and so started the decline of the working class folk of 'Scum Valley'. Us surfers used to call the beach 'Scum Valley' because of the old stink pipe at north that used to pump raw sewerage out into the ocean for us to surf in. We valued street credibility above all else and the community was very tight considering it's close location to such underworld locations as Kings Cross, Darlinghurst and the CBD in general. Being a city beach meant that a colourful cross-section of characters graced our town with the millions of other tourists and beach goers. The story has a David and Goliath twist to it as a rich kid waltzes into town and sets up a surf shop and begins winning friends and influencing people. A staunch local named Dan has a run in with him and so starts a feud that lasts for a decade (Span of the 3 books). Dan eventually opens his own shop and the fallout between rival surf shop clubs sends ripples through the beach. It divides opinions and sets a precedent for ongoing battles that are fought in the streets and in the water.
Download or read book written by Larry G. Patten and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A terrorist attack on the oil fields in the Middle East has made nuclear power essential. The Alliance Group cuts every corner they can to get reactors on line to meet the growing demand for energy. Finally, the inevitable happens; there is a core meltdown that will soon melt through the bottom of the containment vessel and John Patrick is the only one to solve the problem, but he is being pursued by the police for murder.
Download or read book Nothing Week written by Pete Hancock and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Nothing Week' is the other week following pay-week when those with something left in their pockets contribute to the well-being of others whose meagre income has been largely absorbed by 'book-up' or gambling. Set in the remote South Australian township of Oodnadatta on the edge of the Simpson Desert, this enriching narrative offers a bridge into Aboriginal culture following the ups and downs which typify life in that unique community. A number of contemporary social and political issues are discussed in the context of a fictional five-week slice of time from the third week of May through to June.
