Gimme Shelter: a Life of Public Service in New York City

Gimme Shelter: a Life of Public Service in New York City
ISBN-10
0988267543
ISBN-13
9780988267541
Series
Gimme Shelter
Category
Political Science
Pages
148
Language
English
Published
2021-10
Author
Bonnie Stone

Description

Now and then, there really is good government. Bonnie Stone spent 40 years in New York City-and social services-oriented not-for-profits. She doggedly and ingeniously tackled some of New York's most urgent issues, particularly chronic homelessness. Undaunted, Stone negotiated choppy waters, working with the expert, the difficult, the skeptical, the next-to-impossible, the determined, and the inspired. Gimme Shelter has a cast of characters as colorful and varied as the city itself. There are big stories of apparently insurmountable odds, surmounted-and smaller stories of people who with dedicated help were able to beat terrible odds. At a time when government is viewed as ineffective or even as a saboteur of people's best interests, Gimme Shelter reveals how the men and women who work for the City of New York can bring positive change to the lives of its citizens.

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