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Basic Brown : my life and our times / Willie Brown.

by Brown, Willie L.

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New York : Simon & Schuster, 2008.

Brown, Willie L.

Brown, Willie L. -- Political and social views.

California. Legislature. Assembly -- Speakers -- Biography.

Mayors -- California -- San Francisco -- Biography.

Legislators -- California -- Biography.

African American legislators -- California -- Biography.

California -- Politics and government -- 1951-

United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.

United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-1993.

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0806/2007044956-d.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0810/2007044956-s.html

074329081X (hardcover)

9780743290814 (hardcover)

0743290828 (pbk.)

9780743290821 (pbk.)

xi, 350 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.

Willie Brown, who are you kidding? -- Willie Brown is not kidding -- Consensus and power -- Sex scandals and the socializing politician -- The power of clothes : don't pull a Dukakis -- Black politics and racism today -- Women in American politics today -- Asking for money is part of the business -- My solution to the campaign finance mess -- Should one politician call the cops on another? -- A black teenager arrives in San Francisco -- Phil Burton, Herb Caen, Jesse Unruh and me -- My own family life -- Gay rights : how some historic legislation was really made -- Starting on my rise to power -- Stabbed in the back on the way up -- The assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk -- Loyalty and betrayal on the way to the top -- Elected speaker -- Old-time money scams -- "An offer like that could land us both in jail" -- My money raising principles -- Tricks the FBI played to try to get me -- TGun control; Nelson Mandela's California allies; and saving kingdergartens -- Sustaining speakership : most magnificent moment -- The godfather and the father of the house -- Why would you want to be mayor? -- Running for mayor -- Slick Willie : da mayor -- A mayor is actually supposed to solve problems -- The selfish : the killer dynamic of city politics -- Traction and no traction : muni and homelessness -- Restoring the city's crown jewel -- A football stadium and a sado-masochistic birthday party -- Schemers scorned -- Sacred cartel -- A mayor makes friends with warlords as well as with nice people -- The scared days and an urban legend -- The political life -- What is a politician?

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