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How did a scrawny black kid the son of a barber and a domestic who grew up in Harlem and Trenton become the 106th mayor of New York City? It's a remarkable journey. David Norman Dinkins was born in 1927, joined the Marine Corps in the waning days of World War II, went to Howard University on the G.I. Bill, graduated cum laude with a degree in mathematics in 1950, and married Joyce Burrows, whose father, Daniel Burrows, had been a state assemblyman well-versed in the workings of New York...

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A Mayor's Life: Governing New York's Gorgeous Mosaic

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