The author Virvus Jones is a former St Louis politician and his daughter was just mayor for 4 years--losing her re-election bid in April. If I remember right Virvus was convicted and did time for funneling money to a stalking horse candidate--someone he basically put on the ballot to syphon votes from another candidate. In this book it was a person with the same last name as the candidate, in St Louis is usually was another African American or white candidate to syphon the votes away from the same. This book is about politics in this city that sounds a lot like St Louis in the 1960s and 1970s and told from the perspective of the African Americans trying to break in glass ceiling at the time. Not a great read but still interesting.
Since a local book, I figure I will keep it at this point. There are no copies in PBS but not sure it would get requested anyway.
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