Historian and native Philadelphian Timothy J. Lombardo contextualizes and explains Rizzo’s political career and his supporters’ motivations in his 2018 book Blue-Collar Conservatism: Frank Rizzo’s Philadelphia and Populist Politics.
These suggestions grab the imagination and keep it engaged.
To what extent would you go to preserve life? What about quality of life?
Young’s memoirs include a secondary focus on local — and to a lesser degree, national — politics, specifically as the candidates supported labor or other progressive causes.
Happy book birthday to The Third Rainbow Girl by Emma Copley Eisenberg, director of Blue Stoop, a hub for literary Philadelphia! […]
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Happy book birthday to Homing by Philadelphia Storytelling Project director Mark Lyons! In this heart-twisting memoir, a teen boy is the […]
