Pothole Confidential My Life as Mayor of Minneapolis 1st Edition by RT Rybak ISBN 0816699402 9780816699407

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ISBN 10: 0816699402

ISBN 13: 978-0816699407

Author:  R.T. Rybak 

Pothole Confidential: My Life as Mayor of Minneapolis 1st Edition: 

A pajama party at the Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport inadvertently helped launch R.T. Rybak’s political career (imagine a rumba line one hundred protesters long chanting, “We deserve to sleep, hey!”), but his earliest lessons in leadership occurred during his childhood. Growing up in a middle-class neighborhood, attending private school with students who had much more than he did, spending evenings at his family’s store in an area where people lived with much less, he witnessed firsthand the opportunity and injustice of the city he called home.

In a memoir that is at once a political coming-of-age story and a behind-the-scenes look at the running of a great city, the three-term mayor takes readers into the highs and lows and the daily drama of a life inextricably linked with Minneapolis over the past fifty years. With refreshing candor and insight, Rybak describes his path through journalism, marketing, and community activism that led to his unlikely (to him, at least) primary election—on September 11, 2001. His personal account of the challenges and crises confronting the city over twelve years, including the tragic collapse of the I-35W bridge, the rising scourge of youth violence, and the bruising fight over a ban on gay marriage (with Rybak himself conducting the first such ceremony at City Hall on August 1, 2013), is also an illuminating, often funny depiction of learning the workings of the job, frequently on the fly, while trying to keep up with his most important constituency, his family.

As bracing as the “fresh air” campaign that swept him into office, Rybak’s memoir is that rare document from a politician: one more concerned with the people he served and the issues of his time than with burnishing his own credentials. As such, it reflects what leadership truly looks like.

 

Pothole Confidential: My Life as Mayor of Minneapolis 1st Edition Table of contents:

1. Start in the Middle
2. The Beginning
3. No Longer a Game
4. Going to School, Not Necessarily at School
5. For a While the Path Seemed Really Clear
6. Not the Guy in the Back of the Room
7. Leaning Out
8. Leaning In
9. Back on Track
10. Winning
11. Showtime
12. Rookie Mistakes
13. Rookie Promise
14. Showing Up
15. Mt. Weather
16. The Police
17. Officer Mike
18. Jesse Ventura and Two Drunk Firefighters
19. The Ripples of 9/11 and Paul Wellstone
20. Balance
21. New Year, New Governor
22. City Builder Starts Building City
23. McMannus
24. Making the Save, Giving Up the Rebound
25. The Thin Line Between Love and Respect
26. When Kids Kill Kids
27. Results
28. Not So Isolated After All
29. Bridge Collapse
30. Bridge Collapse (Postscript)
31. Two Campaigns
32. Two Campaigns of My Own
33. Education
34. Tornados Real and Imagined
35. Minneapolis – The Brand
36. The Big Bang
37. The Way He Looked at His Son
38. “No Mas”
39. My Favorite Year (Part 1)
40. Big Night in the Summer of Love
41. My Favorite Year (Part 2)
42. The End, Almost Literally

 

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