Brian Alexander — The Mayor: One Poor City's Fight to Bring Back Government and Save the Nation's Soul - with Andrea Pitzer — at the Wharf

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The author of The Hospital asks: Can one challenged city show the way to restore faith in government and reimagine the nation's future? Chester, PA, a majority Black city just south of Philadelphia, is plagued by gun violence, decrepit infrastructure, a hospital at risk of closing, and a scary reputation. After more than a century of mismanagement, people have lost all faith in government. Stefan Roots, a wastewater plant operator, wants to do something to clean it up. So he runs for mayor with an unlikely cast of political aides: a former kid drug dealer, a one time hip hop impresario, a white evangelical graduate student, and a wealthy white business man. Can these neophytes save the soul of the city, restore faith, and set an example for the nation? Brian Alexander…

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