Is pulitzer prize-winning journalist Buzz Bissinger's true epic of philadelphia mayor ed rendell, an utterly unique, unorthodox, and idiosyncratic leader who will do anything to save his city: take unions head on, person...Is pulitzer prize-winning journalist Buzz Bissinger's true epic of philadelphia mayor ed rendell, an utterly unique, unorthodox, and idiosyncratic leader who will do anything to save his city: take unions head on, personally lobby president Clinton to save 10,000 defense jobs, or wrestle smiley the pig on hot dog day--all the while bearing in mind the eternal fickleness of constituents whose favor May hinge on a missed garbage pick-up or an overzealous meter maid.