Richardson Dilworth: Last of the Bare-Knuckled Aristocrats

  Richardson Dilworth straddled all of the nuanced corners of Philadelphia’s political and civic worlds. A blue blood, he was a brilliant agitator for political and municipal reform while making room in his government for the ethnic and street-based Democratic political organization. The result was that Dilworth forged a better Philadelphia. His penchant for the fight and his larger-than-life persona are captured with great style and insight by the father-son team of Peter and Jonathan Binzen. Sam Katz, executive producer, Philadelphia: The Great Experiment In times of trouble, Theodore Roosevelt once said, the country needs not critics or complainers, but “the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood … who spends himself in a worthy cause.”Richardson Dilworth was such a man. At Belleau Wood and Guadalcanal, epic battles in World Wars I and II, he was there when courage counted. Years later, when the doomed luxury liner Andrea Doria was sinki