Rob ford biography toronto mayor on drugs

book by Robyn Doolittle

Crazy Town: The Rob Ford Story is a biography by Robyn Doolittle concerning Toronto mayor Rob Ford and his scandal of a leaked video of him using drugs.

Synopsis

The book describes the controversial political career of Rob Ford who was elected as a Toronto city councillor in , then mayor in Doolittle was a Toronto Star reporter who with fellow reporter Kevin Donovan witnessed a video of Ford in which the mayor smokedcrack.^[1][2] The chapters describe Ford's career as a city councillor for Etobicoke, his controversial statements and actions and his election as Toronto's mayor.

The latter portions of the book describe the initial reports of the crack video and the subsequent consequences, concluding with Ford's November admission that he had smoked crack cocaine.^[2][3] Doolittle also describes how the Rob Ford stories developed at the Star, whose editors exercised considera