Field of Schemes: How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money into Private Profit, Revised and Expanded Edition
- ISBN-10
- 0803285485
- ISBN-13
- 9780803285484
- Series
- Field of Schemes
- Category
- Architecture
- Pages
- 424
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-03-01
- Publisher
- U of Nebraska Press
- Authors
- Neil deMause, Joanna Cagan
Description
Word quickly spread: Christine Quinn, who'd succeeded the termlimited Gifford Miller as council speaker, was downstairs whipping the Democratic caucus into toeing the line on the stadium deal. The vote itself was anticlimactic.
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