Table of Contents

CONTENTS Foreword by Buzz Bissinger Introduction by the Editors 1986 - 1994 Sandra Newman (1988)-by Lisa DePaulo Arlen Specter (1992)-by Alicia Mundy Mumia Abu-Jamal (1993)-by Devin Leonard Bobby Simone (1993)-by Lisa DePaulo Mayor Ed Rendell (1994)-by Lisa DePaulo My Philadelphia Story: W. Wilson Goode, Sr. 1994 - 1999 Robert Montgomery Scott (1995)-by Mark Kram, Jr. Senator Rick Santorum (1995)-by Eric Konigsberg Mike Schmidt (1995)-by Larry Platt Anne d'Harnoncourt (1996)-by Amy Donohue My Philadelphia Story: Judy Wicks Brian Roberts (1997)-by Larry Platt Frank Bender (1997)-by Sabrina Rubin Erdely Richard Glanton (1997)-by Mark Cohen My Philadelphia Story: Judith Rodin Harry Jay Katz (1997)-by Stephen Rodrick Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown (1997)-by Jim Quinn Richard Sprague (1998)-by Buzz Bissinger Mike Teti (1999)-by Christopher McDougall My Philadelphia Story: Terry Gross 2000 - 2004 Mayor John Street (2000)-by Christopher McDougall M. Night Shyamalan (2000)-by Maximillian Potter Vernon Hill (2001)-by Larry Platt My Philadelphia Story: Smarty Jones Mark Yagalla (2001)-by Benjamin Wallace Kenny Gamble (2001)-by Elizabeth Gold Julius Erving (2003)-by Robert Huber My Philadelphia Story: Patti LaBelle David Brooks (2004)-by Sasha Issenberg Dr. William Norwood (2004)-by Jason Fagone Lang Lang (2004)-by Christopher McDougall

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A collection of profiles of the famous, infamous, and nearly famous of the last quarter century in Philadelphia

About the Author

Robert Huber is senior editor at Philadelphia magazine. Benjamin Wallace is editor-at-large at Philadelphia magazine.

Reviews

"The sensory experience of Philadelphia comes every time I walk through it or ride through it. It's exciting and refreshing, but it's still not enough. I want secrets both delicious and dark. I want the intimacies of the people who make this city so unlike any other. Which is where Philadelphia magazine comes in... Its journalism is the best of any urban magazine in the country, tough when it has to be, unflinching when it has to be, compassionate when it has to be... If you want to know the heart of Philadelphia, the complete heart with all the different veins, sit back and enjoy and read these wonderful pieces..."-Buzz Bissinger, from the Foreword "In the 1960s and 1970s, Philadelphia magazine was a pioneer of the so-called New Journalism and largely defined the template of what a city or regional magazine can be. At a time when most city magazines were Bibles of Babbitt, peddling gaseous boosterism and selling content to advertisers, Philadelphia was breaking china in Main Line drawing rooms, shining light into the smoky back rooms of Old Philadelphia power, and writing unflinchingly about the city's seamy underbelly... One of the staples of the magazine has always been the profile, an in-depth prose portrait of a newsmaker or larger-than-life character who in some way defines Philadelphia. This volume brings together, for the first time, some of the best of these pieces. The subjects are among the brightest lights in the recent history of Philadelphia-with a handful of infamous charmers and oddballs included for good measure-captured with a greater depth and intimacy than in any other medium."-Robert Huber and Benjamin Wallace, from the Introduction