The rise of the city manager: A public professional in local government

This title sets forth the lineaments of a profession-form that grew out of 20th century progressivism. Published in 1974 -- only fifteen years before the 1989 end of Late Modernity with the pulling down of the wall in Berlin -- Mr Richard J Stillman II's description is ironic indeed, of a languishing mode of 'public management' that to-day is become well-nigh extinct as the polar ice-caps.