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Not Fade Away

Corn, David | July 18, 1994 issue

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This article focuses on the persona of Marion Barry, a politician, who once was the Mayor of the city of Washington D.C., with specific reference to the decline of the Washington D.C., and the book "Dream City: Race, Power, and the Decline of Washington D.C.," by Harry S. Jaffe and Tom Sherwood. Jaffe and Sherwood conceived "Dream City," as a biography of Marion Barry, once referred to by the local City Paper as "mayor-for-life." The authors transformed the biography into a history of the city and did so with some success, since the dramatic story of Barry's ascent is the tale of modern black politics in Washington.

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BARRY, Marion; WASHINGTON (D.C.) -- History; DREAM City (Book); JAFFE, Harry S.; SHERWOOD, Tom; WASHINGTON (D.C.); UNITED States

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