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Rivlin grew up in North Woodmere, New York and graduated from George W. Hewlett High School and Northwestern University.
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Dust jacket notes: "Chicago--the city whose name is synonymous with urban politics; the city of sharply divided ethnic and racial enclaves; the city whose police force shocked America during the 1968 Democratic convention and then the next year killed Black Panther leader Fred Hampton. As Martin Luther King, Jr., said when he traveled to Chicago in 1965 to turn his attention to the great urban centers of the north, "If we crack Chicago, then we crack the world." Black empowerment "would take off like a prairie fire across the land." In 1983 Chicago elected Harold Washington as the city's first black mayor. This is the story of Washington's improbable victory over Jane Byrne, heir to the late Richard J. Daley's political empire, and over Daley's eldest son. It's the story of a coalition outside the party's mainstream coming to power and ruling in the country's most political of cities. In Fire on the Prairie, Gary Rivlin reveals the personalities and philosophies of those who were at the center of events, from black separatists such as Lu Palmer to community organizers such as Jesse Jackson, and from white liberals who held Washington at arm's length to Chicago originals like Ed Vrdolyak, the opposition's leader. At the center of the drama was Harold Washington, an enigmatic yet engaging figure who fashioned an uneasy but potent multiracial coalition that ruled for five years. The conflicts and compromises of all are described in vivid detail and the resulting history is a thorough account of an election and an administration that captured the nation's attention. Like Mississippi in the 1960s or Boston in the 1970s, Chicago in the 1980s was the stage for a drama that revealed the dimensions of America's racial politics and offered insights and inspiration for future generations."
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Rivlin grew up in North Woodmere, New York and graduated from George W. Hewlett High School and Northwestern University.
Bachelor of Science, Northwestern University, 1980.
He has worked for several different papers, including the Chicago Reader, the Industry Standard, The Investigative Fund, and the New York Times. In addition to his work in journalism, Rivlin has written several books His second book, "Drive By", was published in 1995 while he worked for the East Bay Express, where he served as a staff writer and then executive editors
The book was inspired by the drive-by shooting of 13-year-old Kevin Reed in Oakland, California in 1990.
Rivlin examined, as he put it, "the human side of this country"s youth violence epidemic."
In 2010, he published "Broke, United States of America: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Incorporated. — How the Working Poor Became Big Business," which The New Yorker"s James Surowiecki described as a "blistering new investigation of the subprime economy." In it, Rivlin explored how payday lenders, pawn shops, and check cashers exploit the impoverished in the United States.
Despite attempting to remain objective, he sided with the activists who tried to rein in on the most usurious practices. In 2015, he published "Katrina: After the Flood," about the immediate and long-term effects of Hurricane Katrina on the City of New Orleans.
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