Fiorello La Guardia : ethnicity, reform, and urban development /: ethnicity, reform, and urban development. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ronald H Bayor, Emeritus Professor of History, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, US.
• Other Names: Bayor, Ronald H, 1944-
• Contents: Fiorello La Guardia; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1 Bridging Different Worlds; Family Background; To the Frontier; Reform Beginnings; An Outsider; Rage and Resentment; The Impact of War; The Consular Years; "The Test Is If You Hesitate"; The Power of Tammany; A Peoples Attorney; Not Politics as Usual; Study Questions; Time Line; 2 A Fighting Congressman; Ethnic Realities; "A Stepping-Stone for … Other Italians"; The District and the Campaign; "What Are You in Politics for, for Love?"; "We Didn't Double-Cross You": The 1916 Campaign; Protecting Americas Rights; The Great War "Why Doesn't He Go to Russia?": The 1918 Campaign and the Socialist PartyHis Voice Was Heard: Postwar Politics; "The Town Isn't Ready for an Italian Mayor"; The Worst of Times; Study Questions; Time Line; 3 "The Conscience of the Twenties"; A Hard-Hitting Campaign; A Party "Controlled by the Connivance of the Privileged Few"; A Progressive Resurgence?; An Odd Political Makeup; The Stock Market Crash, New York at the Beginning of the Great Depression, and La Guardia; A Tammany Victory; "A Pint of Liquid Dynamite"; Study Questions; Time Line; 4 La Guardia as Mayor: The First Term The Timing Was Not Right"Kind of a Magic Box?": The Tammany Scandals; A City in Trouble; Fusion, 1933; "Would You Say These Ideas Are Radical?" The 1933 Campaign; Ethnic Succession in "This Most Irish of Cities"; A Different Sort of Mayor: "Where's the Wastebasket!"; Economic Rebound; "Everyone Who Needs It Is Entitled to Relief"; Building a New City; A Bold Leader; An Explosion in Harlem; Responding to Hitler and Mussolini; Progressive Politics; Study Questions; Time Line; 5 Reelection and Disappointment; "He Is Our S.O.B": The 1937 Campaign; Stronger than Ever; Reaching for More Going for Another TermEthnic Wars; The War in Europe and the 1941 Campaign; A Part-Time Mayor: The 1941 Campaign; Analyzing the Vote; A Too-Busy Mayor; On the Radio; Racial Tensions; The Second Harlem Riot; The Ethnic Politician; Still a Reformer; A Fourth Term?; The 1945 Election and the No Deal Party; A New Tammany?; The Last Years; Study Questions; Time Line; 6 La Guardia: His Place in History; Study Questions; Bibliographical Essay; Index; EULA
• Edition: 2nd edition
• Publisher Details: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 328.73/092 B; Legislators -- United States -- Biography; Mayors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography; Legislators; Mayors; Politics and government; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / Legislative Branch; New York (N.Y.) -- Politics and government -- 1898-1951; New York (State) -- New York; United States; Biography; Electronic books; Biography
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781119103530; 1119103533; 9781119103523; 1119103525
• Related ISBNs: 9781119103493; 9781119374794; 1119374790
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
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