Book Review: Local Democracy under Siege: Activism, Public Interests, and Private Politics, by Dorothy Holland, Donald M. Nonini, Catherine Lutz, Lesley Bartlett, Marla Frederick-McGlathery, Thaddeus C. Guldbrandsen, and Enrique G. Murillo Jr. New York: New York University Press, 2007. 368 pp. 22.00 (paper):