Urban Bosses, Machines, and Progressive Reformers
Author : Bruce M. Stave
Publisher :
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 49,66 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : Bruce M. Stave
Publisher :
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 49,66 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : Bruce M. Stave
Publisher :
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 18,68 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Municipal government
ISBN :
Author : Blaine A. Brownell
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 28,91 MB
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN :
The story of urban politics in the years between 1880 and 1920 has all too often been perceived, by journalistic muckrakers and academic historians alike, as a ceaseless struggle between bosses and reformers, with the reformers winning out in the end. The major view expressed in this book is that this boss-reformer dichtomy is not valid; political leaders and their organizations, ideas, and goals simply do not fit into the regid framework that such a notion imposes on the incredibly complex reality of urban politics. -- Preface.
Author : John D. Buenker
Publisher : New York : Scribner
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 22,24 MB
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Terry Golway
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 21,86 MB
Release : 2014-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0871407922
“Golway’s revisionist take is a useful reminder of the unmatched ingenuity of American politics.”—Wall Street Journal History casts Tammany Hall as shorthand for the worst of urban politics: graft and patronage personified by notoriously crooked characters. In his groundbreaking work Machine Made, journalist and historian Terry Golway dismantles these stereotypes, focusing on the many benefits of machine politics for marginalized immigrants. As thousands sought refuge from Ireland’s potato famine, the very question of who would be included under the protection of American democracy was at stake. Tammany’s transactional politics were at the heart of crucial social reforms—such as child labor laws, workers’ compensation, and minimum wages— and Golway demonstrates that American political history cannot be understood without Tammany’s profound contribution. Culminating in FDR’s New Deal, Machine Made reveals how Tammany Hall “changed the role of government—for the better to millions of disenfranchised recent American arrivals” (New York Observer).
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 40,76 MB
Release : 1904
Category : City and town life
ISBN :
Author : Lincoln Steffens
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 38,3 MB
Release : 2022-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The Shame of the Cities is a book written by Lincoln Steffens. It accounts for the workings of corrupt political procedures in several major U.S. cities, along with a few attempts to fight against them.
Author : James J. Connolly
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,84 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Cultural pluralism
ISBN : 9780801441912
Although many observers have assumed that pluralism prevailed in American political life from the start, inherited ideals of civic virtue and moral unity proved stubbornly persistent and influential. The tension between these conceptions of public life was especially evident in the young nation's burgeoning cities. Exploiting a wide range of sources, including novels, cartoons, memoirs, and journalistic accounts, James J. Connolly traces efforts to reconcile democracy and diversity in the industrializing cities of the United States from the antebellum period through the Progressive Era. The necessity of redesigning civic institutions and practices to suit city life triggered enduring disagreements centered on what came to be called machine politics. Featuring plebian leadership, a sharp masculinity, party discipline, and frank acknowledgment of social differences, this new political formula first arose in eastern cities during the mid-nineteenth century and became a subject of national discussion after the Civil War. During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, business leaders, workers, and women proposed alternative understandings of how urban democracy might work. Some tried to create venues for deliberation that built common ground among citizens of all classes, faiths, ethnicities, and political persuasions. But accommodating such differences proved difficult, and a vision of politics as the businesslike management of a contentious modern society took precedence. As Connolly makes clear, machine politics offered at best a quasi-democratic way to organize urban public life. Where unity proved elusive, machine politics provided a viable, if imperfect, alternative.
Author : Abbe Marten
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 37,13 MB
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3668665729
Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Politics - Region: USA, grade: A, , language: English, abstract: During the Revolutionary War, the thirteen colonies that made up America did not have a central government and were only just forming independent state government. Through the first and second Constitutional Congress’, America united in its resistance against Great Britain and adopted policies to abolish English authority over the colonies. This Continental Congress called for the colonies to form their own independent governments and they appointed five men to a committee to draft the declaration of independence. On July 4, 1776 the Constitutional Congress adopted the declaration of Independence which proclaimed the independence of America from the crown. However, now that the United States was a free nation, how should the new government be set up?
Author : Zane L. Miller
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 16,66 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814208618
Miller carefully explores both the nature and the significance of bossism, showing how it and municipal reform were both essential components of the modern urban political system.