This book tells about the responsibilities and duties of mayors in both large and small towns, including working with the city council, managing the city's finances, and serving at civic events.
Describes how mayors are elected and the work they do to make life better for people in their community. Also discusses some mayors who have earned a place in history.
Annie is unhappy that she has to share her grandmother, the mayor, with so many people, but when she helps out during a town emergency, Annie appreciates all that her grandmother does in the community.
Michael Henchard, an unemployed farmhand, gets drunk and sells his wife and baby daughter, but nineteen years later, when he is the Mayor of Casterbridge, his past is brought back to haunt him, when they return, and his success is undone.
A biography of Fiorello La Guardia who started his political career in the House of Representatives before gaining national fame as the mayor of New York City from 1934 to 1945.
A biography of Rudy Giuliani, discussing his early life, his career in law and politics, his term as mayor of New York City, and his laudable behavior in the wake of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001.
