Wauwatosa mayor reflects on turbulent first year in new book

Wauwatosa Mayor Dennis McBride didn’t want to forget his tumultuous first year in office during 2020. Instead, he wrote about it.

McBride’s new book, “A City on the Edge,” chronicles his baptism by fire as mayor during one of the most challenging periods in recent American history. He was sworn in during April 2020, just one month after the pandemic began.

“My first chapter in the book is called Microcosm because we truly were a microcosm of everything that was going on in America. We had 98 days and nights of protests. I was dealing with the pandemic. We were all dealing with that,” McBride said…

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