Inside Urban Politics: Voices from America's Cities and Suburbs

Brings to the students voices of passion, insight, and conflict, and engage them in improving their own cities and suburbs. First-hand accounts—speeches by politicians, newspaper stories, editorials by journalists, interviews with political activists, memoirs and biographies of famous people, and research reports advocating change of social, economic, political, and governmental conditions of our cities and suburbs today and the proposals to change, reform, and improve them. Instructors who prefer to present Urban Politics through an emphasis is on first-hand accounts.