Biographical Dictionary of American Mayors, 1820-1980
Author: Melvin G. Holli
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 1981-12-29
Total Pages: 472
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Author: Melvin G. Holli
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 1981-12-29
Total Pages: 472
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Author: Melvin G. Holli
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780271018768
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents career biographies of the ten best American mayors in the history of the modern office, as determined by a 1993 survey; and includes a copy of the poll questionnaire, and lists of the best and worst ten mayors.
Author: Melvin G. Holli
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780271042343
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Edward L. Glaeser
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2007-11-01
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 0226299597
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Despite recent corporate scandals, the United States is among the world’s least corrupt nations. But in the nineteenth century, the degree of fraud and corruption in America approached that of today’s most corrupt developing nations, as municipal governments and robber barons alike found new ways to steal from taxpayers and swindle investors. In Corruption and Reform, contributors explore this shadowy period of United States history in search of better methods to fight corruption worldwide today. Contributors to this volume address the measurement and consequences of fraud and corruption and the forces that ultimately led to their decline within the United States. They show that various approaches to reducing corruption have met with success, such as deregulation, particularly “free banking,” in the 1830s. In the 1930s, corruption was kept in check when new federal bureaucracies replaced local administrations in doling out relief. Another deterrent to corruption was the independent press, which kept a watchful eye over government and business. These and other facets of American history analyzed in this volume make it indispensable as background for anyone interested in corruption today.
Author: William P. Leahy, SJ
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: 1991-01-01
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781589018358
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Professor Leahy recounts the academic tensions between religious beliefs and intellectual inquiry, and explore the social changes that have affected higher education and American Catholicism throughout this century. He attempts to explain why the significant growth of Catholic colleges and universities was not always matched by concomitant academic esteem in the larger world of American higher education.
Author: Thomas Mann
Publisher: OUP USA
Published: 2005-10-27
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 0195189973
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Author: Louis Sandy Maisel
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 556
ISBN-13: 9780742501812
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Brings together a complete picture of the past, present, and future of Jewish political participation.
Author: Garrison Nelson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2017-03-23
Total Pages: 928
ISBN-13: 1628925183
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the first biography of U.S. House Speaker John W. McCormack, author Garrison Nelson uncovers previously forgotten FBI files, birth and death records, and correspondence long thought lost or buried. For such an influential figure, McCormack tried to dismiss the past, almost erasing his legacy from the public's mind. John William McCormack: A Political Biography sheds light on the behind-the-curtain machinations of American politics and the origins of the modern-day Democratic party, facilitated through McCormack's triumphs. McCormack overcame desperate poverty and family tragedy in the Irish ghetto of South Boston to hold the second-most powerful position in the nation. By reinventing his family history to elude Irish Boston's powerful political gatekeepers, McCormack embarked on a 1928 - 1971 House career and from 1939-71, the longest house leadership career. Working with every president from Coolidge to Nixon, McCormack's social welfare agenda, which included Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, immigration reform, and civil rights legislation helped commit the nation to the welfare of its most vulnerable citizens. By helping create the Austin-Boston Connection, McCormack reshaped the Democratic Party from a regional southern white Protestant party to one that embraced urban religiously and racially diverse ethnics. A man free of prejudice, John McCormack was the Boston Brahmin's favorite Irishman, the South's favorite northerner, and known in Boston as "Rabbi John," the Jews' favorite Catholic.
Author: Emily Newell Blair
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 0826260926
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Because Blair's life essentially spanned two eras, from the end of the nineteenth century through the middle of the twentieth, she thought of herself as a bridge builder. A dedicated feminist, she wanted her autobiography to help women understand what life was like during that transition time. She had moved from being a conventional, middle-class, midwestern wife and mother to becoming an acclaimed author, a nationally known feminist, and vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee only two years after women gained the right to vote. She felt that her story could encourage women to take their rightful places in public life."--Jacket.
Author: Michael F. Rizzo
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 1411637577
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A biographical history of the mayors who held office throughout the history of Buffalo, New York, arranged chronologically by years in office.