![]() And Bissinger was there to record in fascinating detail the story of a mayor and a city that has implications far beyond Philadelphia's borders. Yet Rendell was able to achieve one of the most remarkable turnarounds in recent American urban history. In 1992 the city was facing an immediate fiscal crisis as its bonds slipped to ''junk'' ratings. Philadelphia had been losing jobs and residents since the 1950's, and As the new Mayor he was facing enough problems to daunt even Benjamin Franklin. For Rendell had little reason to inviteĪ reporter to observe his private strategy sessions and top-level negotiations. This appeared to be one more of the impulsively overconfident decisions that had led Rendell, a liberal Democrat and a former Philadelphia District Attorney, to as many defeats as victories in his political career. Rendell for extraordinary access to report the inside story ofīig-city politics in Philadelphia, the Mayor immediately agreed. ![]() But in 1991, when Buzz Bissinger (who had won a Pulitzer Prize at The Philadelphia Inquirer) asked Mayor-elect Edward G. The endless corridors to courtrooms for sentencing. ![]() ![]() ![]() N the dilapidated grandeur of Philadelphia's City Hall, investigative reporters are customarily treated as warily as the chained felons who used to shuffle down And some of it works, in this reporter's account of a city and its struggle to stay alive. ![]()
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