Doolittle is a
Toronto Star reporter who covers the City Hall beat.
While a flurry of books and investigative media pieces have told the Ford story, this is likely the best of the bunch. Doolittle not only coherently assesses the Ford rise to the mayoralty of Toronto, but places the Mayor within the context of his family history, changes within city politics, and as a player within a political 'machine'. Of course, she describes the chase for the now-infamous 'crack video(s)', but to her credit she also relates many of the details of how the Star's decision-making process worked with regard to not purchasing the video, and deciding to go to print with the information it had once the video's existence had been broken by other media.
You can read an excerpt from the book
here.
You can read
my discussion of a similar book,
How Rob Ford Happened (from the
National Post, a competitor to the newspaper Doolittle works for). In short, Doolittle does a better job of telling the story. The
Post text seems pretty opportunistic.
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