An education -- The nation city -- How did we get here? -- The rise of cities -- The prospects -- Leading lights -- The "right" mayors -- Chicago (Home sweet home) -- International mayors -- Cities, waterfronts, and riverwalks -- Horizontal networks -- The future

"At a time of anxiety about the effectiveness of our national government, Rahm Emanuel provides a clear vision, for both progressives and centrists, of how to get things done in America today--a bracing, optimistic vision of America's future from one of our most experienced and original political minds"--