So Much to Do: A Full Life of Business, Politics, and Confronting Fiscal Crises
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (849 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1610390911 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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NOEMI CORUJO said Five Stars. buyed more than two times. ABQ girl said Very readable.. I heard this gentleman on NPR and he made a lot of sense as to why our politics is so dysfunctional. Besides explaining that, he offers several examples as to how to get things done. Granted, he may be exceptional in his people skills and determination but there must be more people out there who could do similar feats of bringing people together to solve our problems.The real surprise was HOW readable it was. I thought I would have to slog through . an intrepid public servant admirer of Latin literature Lots of great history and stories of one of New York's great public servants. Dick Ravitch story is encouraging for anyone interested in entering public service. Only shortfall of the book is writing sometimes leaves something to be desired.
Ravitch."New York TimesSo Much to Do gracefully synthesizes a serendipitous memoir illustrating the education of a public man; an enlightening, prescriptive citizen’s manual into making government work; and a passionate ode to democracy’ (as Mr. Wall Street Journal"Mr. The book by Dick Ravitch, So Much to Do,” is the story of his love affair with public service a delightful and insightful journey through a life of business, politics and emergenciesFortunately, the book arrives as a new generation of leaders exhibits a shaky understanding of what fiscal prudence means, and the dangers of ignoring it. The book ought to be required reading by the new team at City Hall before it is too la
In 1975, Ravitch was asked by then New York Governor Hugh Carey to arrange a rescue of the New York State Urban Development Corporation, a public entity that had issued bonds to finance over 30,000 affordable housing units but was on the verge of bankruptcy. Trained as a lawyer, he worked briefly for the House of Representatives, then began his career in his family’s construction business. He turned around the Bowery Savings Bank, chaired a commission that rewrote the Charter of the City of New York, served on two Presidential Commissions, and became chief labor negotiator for Major League Baseball.Then, in 2008, after Governor Eliot Spitzer resigned in a prostitution scandal and Ne