“Power Failure: Politics, Patronage, and the Economic Future of Buffalo, New York” by Diana Dillaway.

Ms. Dillaway, a professional city planner with twenty-five years of experience has many publications and presentations to her credit. As a native of Buffalo, she turned her talents toward her hometown to try to understand the diminishment of a once fine and prosperous city. Her story is compelling and should give pause to every prosperous city of the early 21st Century; no city is immune to the degradations visited upon the prosperous mid-western cities of 20th century America by arrogance, postponed investment, distain for diversity and political de-construction.