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Buzz Bissinger, A Prayer for the City (Random House 1998; Vintage 1999) Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Buzz Bissinger was granted exclusive access to the first five years of Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell's mid-1990's administration. The result is a historically rich, vignette-laden, "page-turning" account of the day-to-day pressures facing a big-city official as he presides over his struggling metropolis. Civic idealism, it seems, finds its match in urban despair. MORE: Pennsylvania Gazette interview with Bissinger Amazon |
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