Fiorello La Guardia (eBook)

Ethnicity, Reform, and Urban Development

Ronald H. Bayor (Autor)

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2017 | 2. Auflage
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-119-10352-3 (ISBN)

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Fiorello La Guardia was an ambitious man who wanted great success for himself-but he also wanted to advocate on behalf of the poor and forgotten. Through hard work and perseverance he managed to achieve both. This work examines the life of the man who not only became one of New York's greatest and most renowned mayors, but who brought about some of the most important changes in the history of the city.

This thoroughly revised second edition of Fiorello La Guardia: Ethnicity, Reform, and Urban Development looks at the many events of the popular mayor's life-his early beginnings as a politician, the events surrounding his life and city, his multiple terms as New York City's Mayor, his personal and professional disappointments, and his ultimate place in history. It also examines the broader subject of cities during times of stress, the ability of mayors to enhance urban life, and the origins of federal aid to cities.

• Connects the New York and urban story to that of the nation and to the subfields of Progressivism, the Depression, the New Deal, and World War II
• Contains 16 new images-of La Guardia, his contemporaries, and city shots-spaced throughout the text
• Offers a timeline of principal dates in La Guardia's life keyed to significant events in the city's, state's, and nation's history
• Includes key terms and study questions for each chapter
• Features a completely updated bibliographical essay

Comprehensive, yet highly accessible, Fiorello La Guardia: Ethnicity, Reform, and Urban Development, Second Edition makes ideal supplementary reading for survey courses in the history of New York or New York City as well as for general American History courses.

Ronald Howard Bayor was born on March 14, 1944 in New York City. Bachelor, City College of New York, 1965. Master of Arts, Syracuse University, 1966. Doctor of Philosophy, University Pennsylvania, 1970.

He's a Recipient Distinguished Service Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society, 1992, Georgia Tech. Outstanding Teacher award, 1983, School of Social Science Excellence in Teaching award, 1990, Lifetime Service award., Association Asian American Studies, 2005, Distinguished Editor award, The Council Editors of Learned Journals, 2008; fellow, National Endowment of the Humanities, 1992-1993.

Inhalt

Fiorello La Guardia 3
Contents 7
Preface and Acknowledgments 9
1 Bridging Different Worlds 11
Family Background 14
To the Frontier 15
Reform Beginnings 16
An Outsider 19
Rage and Resentment 20
The Impact of War 21
The Consular Years 22
“The Test Is If You Hesitate” 24
The Power of Tammany 25
A Peoples Attorney 27
Not Politics as Usual 29
Study Questions 29
Time Line 30
2 A Fighting Congressman 31
Ethnic Realities 31
“A Stepping-Stone for … Other Italians” 32
The District and the Campaign 34
“What Are You in Politics for, for Love?” 35
“We Didn't Double-Cross You”: The 1916 Campaign 37
Protecting Americas Rights 38
The Great War 43
“Why Doesn't He Go to Russia?”: The 1918 Campaign and the Socialist Party 47
His Voice Was Heard: Postwar Politics 50
“The Town Isn't Ready for an Italian Mayor” 52
The Worst of Times 55
Study Questions 56
Time Line 57
3 “The Conscience of the Twenties” 59
A Hard-Hitting Campaign 59
A Party “Controlled by the Connivance of the Privileged Few” 63
A Progressive Resurgence? 68
An Odd Political Makeup 71
The Stock Market Crash, New York at the Beginning of the Great Depression, and La Guardia 76
A Tammany Victory 82
“A Pint of Liquid Dynamite” 85
Study Questions 87
Time Line 87
4 La Guardia as Mayor: The First Term 89
The Timing Was Not Right 89
“Kind of a Magic Box?”: The Tammany Scandals 91
A City in Trouble 95
Fusion, 1933 98
“Would You Say These Ideas Are Radical?” The 1933 Campaign 100
Ethnic Succession in “This Most Irish of Cities” 107
A Different Sort of Mayor: “Where's the Wastebasket!” 112
Economic Rebound 120
“Everyone Who Needs It Is Entitled to Relief” 122
Building a New City 125
A Bold Leader 131
An Explosion in Harlem 133
Responding to Hitler and Mussolini 136
Progressive Politics 139
Study Questions 141
Time Line 141
5 Reelection and Disappointment 143
“He Is Our S.O.B”: The 1937 Campaign 143
Stronger than Ever 146
Reaching for More 148
Going for Another Term 151
Ethnic Wars 154
The War in Europe and the 1941 Campaign 157
A Part-Time Mayor: The 1941 Campaign 158
Analyzing the Vote 160
A Too-Busy Mayor 162
On the Radio 165
Racial Tensions 166
The Second Harlem Riot 170
The Ethnic Politician 173
Still a Reformer 174
A Fourth Term? 175
The 1945 Election and the No Deal Party 177
A New Tammany? 179
The Last Years 183
Study Questions 185
Time Line 185
6 La Guardia: His Place in History 187
Study Questions 193
Bibliographical Essay 195
Index 205
EULA 224

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.7.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: 20th century history • American Cultural History • American Politics • American Social & Cultural History • American Social & Cultural History • American social history • American Studies • Ethnic & Immigration History • Ethnische Geschichte u. Einwanderungsgeschichte der USA • famous congressmen • famous mayors • famous politicians • Fiorello La Guardia • Geschichte • Geschichte der USA • great American mayors • History • history of the progressive era • Immigration History • La Guardia • New York • New York City • new york city history • New York during the Great Depression • New York mayor • New York State history • New York survey • nyc history • Sozial- u. Kulturgeschichte Amerikas • The 1920s • the 1930s • the 1940s • The Great Depression • The New Deal • The Progressive Era • urban america • urban politics • us history • U.S. History • U.S. political history • U.S. survey • World War II
• ISBN-10: 1-119-10352-5 / 1119103525
• ISBN-13: 978-1-119-10352-3 / 9781119103523