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LaGuardia in Congress /
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...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Fall Creek Books,
2010.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- 1. The New Congressman from Manhattan, 1917
- 2. Fighting the War, in Congress and at the Front
- 3. The Issues of Peace, 1919
- 4. Bitter Interlude, 1920-1922
- 5. Return to Congress in the Age of "Prosperity"
- 6. LaGuardia, La Follette, and Progressivism, 1922-1924
- 7. Battling Nativism in the Coolidge Era
- 8. The Legacy of the Red Scare
- 9. Pointing to a New Foreign Policy
- 10. The Battle for Public Power in the Twenties
- 11. The "Other Half" in the New Gilded Age
- 12. LaGuardia and Progressive Politics, 1924-1929
- 13. Hunger vs. Private Enterprise: First Round
- 14. Second Round: Relief, Public Works, and Tear Gas
- 15. "Foul Birds of Prey": The Financiers
- 16. Triumph on Two Fronts: Taxes and Labor Injunctions
- 17. Communism, Nativism, and Foreign Policy
- 18. Political Defeat and Moral Victory, 1932-1933
- 19. Fiorello LaGuardia in Congress: An Appraisal
- Bibliography
- Index