Basic Brown : my life and our times /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Simon & Schuster,
[2008]
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| Edition: | 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Willie Brown, who are you kidding?
- Willie Brown is not kidding
- Consensus and power
- Sex scandals and the socializing politician
- The power of clothes : don't pull a Dukakis
- Black politics and racism today
- Women in American politics today
- Asking for money is part of the business
- My solution to the campaign finance mess
- Should one politician call the cops on another?
- A black teenager arrives in San Francisco
- Phil Burton, Herb Caen, Jesse Unruh and me
- My own family life
- Gay rights : how some historic legislation was really made
- Starting on my rise to power
- Stabbed in the back on the way up
- The assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk
- Loyalty and betrayal on the way to the top
- Elected speaker
- Old-time money scams
- "An offer like that could land us both in jail"
- My money raising principles
- Tricks the FBI played to try to get me
- TGun control; Nelson Mandela's California allies; and saving kingdergartens
- Sustaining speakership : most magnificent moment
- The godfather and the father of the house
- Why would you want to be mayor?
- Running for mayor
- Slick Willie : da mayor
- A mayor is actually supposed to solve problems
- The selfish : the killer dynamic of city politics
- Traction and no traction : muni and homelessness
- Restoring the city's crown jewel
- A football stadium and a sado-masochistic birthday party
- Schemers scorned
- Sacred cartel
- A mayor makes friends with warlords as well as with nice people
- The scared days and an urban legend
- The political life
- What is a politician?