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Title: As gripping as nonfiction gets
Review: Buzz Bissinger, whose book "Friday Night Lights" is a provocative page-turner on the world of high school sports, accomplishes the same effect with urban government here. I was born and raised within 30 miles of Philadelphia and now live in Houston, and this book drained my emotions about the city I still think of as home as well as my new home. In showing how Ed Rendell used all of his character and will to turn the city around, and also demonstrating how he was powerless in many of his attempts to achieve reform, Bissinger proves that Rendell fought the good fight and that others must as well if our cities are to be saved. His final chapter, on the fate of the city's Navy yard, pulses with human drama.
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