The Incomparable Mayor Masloff

Author Barbara S. Burstin

It is fairly certain that Sophie Masloff never studied the writings of our founding fathers. She was a poor girl, not able to go to college, not steeped in the niceties of the American tradition, but despite this, Sophie in a very real sense, lived up to our founding fathers' standards. She might not have been the incarnation of the person they envisioned as a leader. After all, she was a woman, a Jew, not independently wealthy or with any pedigree or celebrated status. It was said by those who knew her that Sophie had three great loves - her family, the Democratic Party and the city of Pittsburgh.