Download or read book LaGuardia in Congress written by Howard Zinn and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiorello LaGuardia is known best as the tempestuous mayor of New York City in the days when Franklin Delano Roosevelt sat in the White House. There had been, however, an earlier time, which matched his mayoralty years in sheer drama and perhaps surpassed them in lasting achievement—LaGuardia's years in Congress. He served in the House of Representative almost continuously from 1917 to 1933, representing two ethnically diverse congressional districts: the Fourteenth (Greenwich Village), from 1917 to 1919, and the Twentieth (East Harlem), from 1923 to 1933. Although barred from important committee posts because of his political independence and thus denied from playing a direct role in lawmaking, he was a tireless and vocal champion of Progressive causes, from allowing more immigration and removing U.S. troops from Nicaragua to speaking up for the rights and livelihoods of striking miners, impoverished farmers, oppressed minorities, and struggling families. A goad to the era's plutocrats and their enablers in government, LaGuardia fought for progressive income taxes, greater government oversight of Wall Street, and national employment insurance for workers idled by the Great Depression. In this book, first published by Cornell University Press in 1959, Howard Zinn establishes LaGuardia's tenure in Congress as a vital link between the Progressive and New Deal eras, offering a lively and informative account of his many legislative battles, his political philosophy, and the distinctly urban (specifically, New York City) sensibilities he brought to the Progressive movement.
Download or read book LaGuardia in Congress written by Howard Zinn and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous as mayor of New York City, Fiorello LaGuardia's career in Congress bridged the Progressive and New Deal eras.
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Download or read book LaGuardia Policy Advocated In Congress written by Jacinto Eustace and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-07 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book shares LaGuardia's political path in Congress. LaGuardia represents an ethnically diverse slum in East Harlem. During his political tenure, he fought for progressive income taxes, tighter government oversight of Wall Street, and national employment insurance for unemployed workers in the United States. Great Depression. LaGuardia in Congress as a vital link between the Progressives and New Deal eras, giving a vivid account of his many legislative battles, his political philosophy, and distinct urban sensibilities.
Download or read book Fiorello Laguardia in Congress written by Howard Zinn and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fiorello H LaGuardia written by Stephen M. Zecher and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Capital City written by Thomas Kessner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-04-07 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the nineteenth century, New York City was an undistinguished town, competing with Philadelphia and Boston to be America's dominant port city. Just two generations later, it had built itself into the country's powerhouse center of trade and finance, rivaled only by London as financial capital of the world. In Capital City, Thomas Kessner tells the story of this remarkable transformation. With the advantages of its famous harbor and the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, New York became the chief commercial center for the growing nation. As the shipping industry prospered, capital accumulated, and a growing banking center emerged, New York went on to finance the Union cause during the Civil War, open the West to development, and consolidate the national railroad system. The city's energy and opportunity attracted ambitious men from all over the country whose names became synonymous with big business: Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Morgan. New York's banks set the interest rates for the nation, its stock exchange fixed the price of securities, its investors transformed American business from family-owned enterprises into modern corporations, and its growing political clout catapulted public figures, such as Samuel Tilden and Teddy Roosevelt, onto the national stage. Combining political and urban history with a colorful cast of characters, Capital City chronicles how Gotham's Gilded Age reshaped the metropolis and the nation as it molded our present-day economy.
Download or read book LaGuardia s Tenure In Congress written by Fausto Waszak and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book shares LaGuardia's political path in Congress. LaGuardia represents an ethnically diverse slum in East Harlem. During his political tenure, he fought for progressive income taxes, tighter government oversight of Wall Street, and national employment insurance for unemployed workers in the United States. Great Depression. LaGuardia in Congress as a vital link between the Progressives and New Deal eras, giving a vivid account of his many legislative battles, his political philosophy, and distinct urban sensibilities.
Download or read book Henry Frank V Fiorello H LaGuardia written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Elections No. 2 and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book City of Ambition FDR LaGuardia and the Making of Modern New York written by Mason B. Williams and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fascinating. . . . Williams tells the story of La Guardia and Roosevelt with insight and elegance.”—Edward Glaeser, New York Times Book Review
Download or read book La Guardia in Congress written by Howard Zinn and published by . This book was released on 2003-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Henry Frank Volume Fiorello H LaGuardia written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Elections No. 2 and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book After the Vote written by Elisabeth Israels Perry and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-06 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon after his inauguration in 1934, New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia began appointing women into his administration. By the end of his three terms in office, he had installed almost a hundred as lawyers in his legal department, but also as board and commission members and as secretaries, deputy commissioners, and judges. No previous mayor had done anything comparable. Aware they were breaking new ground for women in American politics, the "Women of the La Guardia Administration," as they called themselves, met frequently for mutual support and political strategizing. This is the first book to tell their stories. Author Elisabeth Israels Perry begins with the city's suffrage movement, which prepared these women for political action as enfranchised citizens. After they won the vote in 1917, suffragists joined political party clubs and began to run for office, many of them hoping to use political platforms to enact feminist and progressive public policies. Circumstances unique to mid-twentieth century New York City advanced their progress. In 1930, Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized an inquiry into alleged corruption in the city's government, long dominated by the Tammany Hall political machine. The inquiry turned first to the Vice Squad's entrapment of women for sex crimes and the reported misconduct of the Women's Court. Outraged by the inquiry's disclosures and impressed by La Guardia's pledge to end Tammany's grip on city offices, many New York City women activists supported him for mayor. It was in partial recognition of this support that he went on to appoint an unprecedented number of them into official positions, furthering his plans for a modernized city government. In these new roles, La Guardia's women appointees not only contributed to the success of his administration but left a rich legacy of experience and political wisdom to oncoming generations of women in American politics.
Download or read book La Guardia written by John Franklin Carter and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book I Never Did Like Politics written by Terry Golway and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hugely entertaining celebration of one of America’s greatest politicians—a source of inspiration for our equally challenging times... Fiorello LaGuardia was one of the twentieth century’s most colorful politicians—on the New York and national stage. He was also quintessentially American: the son of Italian immigrants, who rose in society through sheer will and chutzpah. Almost one hundred years later, America is once again grappling with issues that would have been familiar to the Little Flower, as he was affectionately known. It’s time to bring back LaGuardia, argues historian and journalist Terry Golway, to remind us all what an effective municipal officer (as he preferred to call himself) can achieve... Golway examines LaGuardia’s extraordinary career through four essential qualities: As a patriot, a dissenter, a leader, and a statesman. He needed them all when he stood against the nativism, religious and racial bigotry, and reactionary economic policies of the 1920s, and again when he faced the realities of Depression-era New York and the rise of fascism at home and abroad in the 1930s. Just before World War II, the Roosevelt administration formally apologized to the Nazis when LaGuardia referred to Hitler as a “brown-shirted fanatic.” There was nobody quite like Fiorello LaGuardia. In this immensely readable book, as entertaining as the man himself, Terry Golway captures the enduring appeal of one of America’s greatest leaders.
Download or read book Changing the Rules of Engagement written by Martha Laguardia-Kotite and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changing the Rules of Engagement brings to life the authentic, vivid leadership stories of inspiring and adventurous women who achieved the extraordinary serving their country in the U.S. military--leadership lessons relatable to today's businesspeople.
