cover image The New Urban Leaders

The New Urban Leaders

Joyce A. Ladner. Brookings Institution Press, $24.95 (200pp) ISBN 978-0-8157-5108-3

In The New Urban Leaders, Joyce Ladner, a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, profiles some 25 appointed heads of nonprofit community-based urban organizations. Aimed at community activists and leaders, the book includes close studies of a few including Robert Moses, a civil rights era activist who now heads The Algebra Project and the Rev. Eugene Rivers, who fights gang violence in Boston and a broader analysis of how to build such leadership nationally. ( Aug.)