Walking a Tightrope Backward in High Heels

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>From the halls of the Philadelphia City Council to the challenges of single motherhood Blondell Reynolds-Brown's memoir </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: inherit>Walking a Tightrope Backward in High Heels</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> offers an unflinching look at what it takes to succeed in the bruising arena of big-city politics. As one of Philadelphia's most influential councilwomen Reynolds-Brown shattered glass ceilings and championed transformative legislation for women children and families during her remarkable twenty-year tenure.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But behind the headlines and policy victories lay a more intimate story: that of a divorced single mother navigating the delicate balance between personal ambition and family obligations. With remarkable candor Reynolds-Brown reveals the storms she weathered including a public campaign controversy that threatened to derail everything she'd built. Yet through it all she demonstrates how to adjust the sail when the winds of change blow fierce.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Part political memoir part leadership manifesto this powerful account from a pioneering public servant shows what's possible with equal measures of moxie and grace. Reynolds-Brown's journey from educator to accomplished legislator offers an inspiring blueprint for anyone who's ever had to fight twice as hard to get half as far-and emerged stronger for it.</span></p><p></p>