Power Failure

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Power Failure is written by Charles Brecher and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0195044274 (ISBN 10) and 9780195044270 (ISBN 13).

They examine the operation of the Office of the Mayor and the City Council, covering everything from the number of members and their annual salaries (Council Members receive $55,000 per year, the Council President $105,000) to the mayoral races of John V. Lindsay, Abraham Beame, and Edward I. Koch. Much of this encyclopedic work focuses on New York's ever-present financial woes, including the financial crisis of the mid-1970s, when the City had an unaudited deficit of over a billion dollars and the public credit markets closed their doors.