"Power to the Neighborhoods"

"Norman Mailer and Jimmy Breslin’s campaign to liberate NYC," which had the above as its slogan, recalled by the former's son — Summer of ’69. An excerpt:

He took great pride in pronouncing himself a Left-Conservative—Left because he believed that desperate times required radical solutions, conservative because he distrusted centralized government. The label baffled even the more eclectic personalities he encountered on the various circuits. But in his view, Left and Right do not necessarily need to exist in solitary states. Rather, they could dwell together in a radically alternative system to the one we know today—one in which governance belongs to local inhabitants bound by as little federal interference as possible. His claim to be running to the left and right of every man in the race was no gimmick.