{"product_id":"dilworth","title":"Richardson Dilworth: Last of the Bare-Knuckled Aristocrats","description":"\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eRichardson Dilworth straddled all of the nuanced corners of Philadelphia’s political and civic worlds. A blue blood, he was a brilliant agitator for political and municipal reform while making room in his government for the ethnic and street-based Democratic political organization. The result was that Dilworth forged a better Philadelphia. His penchant for the fight and his larger-than-life persona are captured with great style and insight by the father-son team of Peter and Jonathan Binzen.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSam Katz, executive producer, \u003c\/em\u003ePhiladelphia: The Great Experiment\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn times of trouble, Theodore Roosevelt once said, the country needs not critics or complainers, but “the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood … who spends himself in a worthy cause.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichardson Dilworth was such a man. At Belleau Wood and Guadalcanal, epic battles in World Wars I and II, he was there when courage counted. Years later, when the doomed luxury liner \u003cem\u003eAndrea Doria\u003c\/em\u003e was sinking at sea, Dilworth instinctively helped get other passengers into lifeboats and was among the last to leave the ship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn to a wealthy family in Pittsburgh, raised in New York and educated at Yale, Dilworth moved to Philadelphia to enter the practice of law in 1926, and he embarked on his political career a few years later. A liberal Democrat in a city totally dominated by Republicans and rife with corruption, he suffered defeat after defeat, exchanging insults with his opponents and gaining a reputation as a “bare-knuckled aristocrat” in American politics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1951, Dilworth and Joseph S. Clark ended sixty-seven years of boss-ridden, often corrupt rule by the GOP. Clark served one term as mayor and then went on to the U.S. Senate. Dilworth pulled off a singular trifecta, serving first as Philadelphia’s district attorney, then as mayor, and finally as head of the city’s embattled Board of Education during the tumultuous 1960s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichardson Dilworth emerges in this stirring biography as one of Philadelphia’s great citizens, perhaps its greatest since Benjamin Franklin. He was a true inspiration to his adopted city, and since his death in 1974, Philadelphia has not seen his like. For those two reasons and for the multitude of contributions he made to the people of Philadelphia and their way of life, the mayor who was also a statesman will long be remembered.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeter Binzen\u003c\/strong\u003e was a reporter, editor and columnist for more than thirty years at the Philadelphia \u003cem\u003eBulletin\u003c\/em\u003e, and for more than twenty years at \u003cem\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/em\u003e. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eWhitetown USA\u003c\/em\u003e, the coauthor of \u003cem\u003eThe Wreck of the Penn Central\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Cop Who Would Be King\u003c\/em\u003e as well as the editor of \u003cem\u003eNearly Everybody Read It\u003c\/em\u003e, a history of the Philadelphia \u003cem\u003eBulletin\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJonathan Binzen\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer, editor and photographer. A senior editor at\u003cem\u003e Fine Woodworking\u003c\/em\u003e magazine, he has written and illustrated articles for \u003cem\u003eThis Old House\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAmerican Craft\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eInspired House\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eHome Furniture\u003c\/em\u003e. He is the coauthor of \u003cem\u003eArts and Crafts Furniture\u003c\/em\u003e, a history tracing the international scope of the Arts and Crafts movement.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Camino Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":2021265667,"sku":"978-1-933822-86-0-1","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0874\/5798\/products\/ProductImage_1_32b116cc-f5de-4e3f-a5d1-0dfc201d676c.jpg?v=1433029335","url":"https:\/\/www.caminobooks.com\/products\/dilworth","provider":"Camino Books, Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}