Power Failure
Subtitle: Politics, Patronage, And the Economic Future of Buffalo, New York
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: April 4, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781591024002
Subjects: Area / regional studies; Politics and government; History - U.S.; New York - Local History; New York - State Government; United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic; History; Political History; History: American; USA; Government - Local; United States - State & Local - General; Government - State & Provincial; Buffalo (N.Y.); Economic Conditions
Description: "Diana Dillaway chronicles the story of urban decline in a once-great American city, describing a small, powerful elite, warring political and economic interests; ethnic communities fighting change; and a black community; that wanted nothing but change. Dillaway includes stories of people who bucked the tide."--Jacket.