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I Never Did Like Politics: How Fiorello La Guardia Became America's Mayor, and Why He Still Matters

I Never Did Like Politics: How Fiorello La Guardia Became America's Mayor, and Why He Still Matters

Golway, Terry
Vertullo, Jon
Vertullo, Jon

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Political Biographies20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Political Science

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ISBN13: 9798874682576
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Published: Feb 20 2024
Language: English
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 listenable book, as entertaining as the man himself, Terry Golway captures the enduring appeal of one of America's greatest leaders.

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