Rizzo: The Last Big Man in Big City America
S.A. Paolantonio with John F. Timoney (introduction)
Pages | 420 pages with a 16-page photo section |
Size | 6" x 9" |
ISBN | 978-0-940159-27-3 |
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Pages | 420 pages with a 16-page photo section |
Size | 6" x 9" |
ISBN | 978-0-940159-27-3 |
Preview Book | View Excerpt |
Publishers Weekly
Here is the tenth-anniversary edition of the first full-scale biography of Frank Rizzo, one of the most beloved and feared public figures in urban American history. Sweeping and finely detailed, this is a work of scholarship that reads like a novel, packed with colorful new details and revealing new stories about a man whose life demonstrated how the force of personality can affect history.
About the Author
Formerly a reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer, S. A. Paolantonio now works for ESPN.
John F. Timoney served as the police commissioner of Philadelphia.