The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City - Alan Ehrenhalt

Alan Ehrenhalt was the executive editor of Governing magazine from 1990 to 2009. He is the author of The United States of Ambition , The Lost City , and Democracy in the Mirror . In 2000, he was the recipient of the American Political Science Association's Carey McWilliams Award for distinguished contributions to the field of political science by a journalist. He lives near Washington, D.C.