Al Smith and His America

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Little, Brown, 1958 - Biography & Autobiography - 207 pages
A short study, not only of Al Smith as a personality, but also of his relation to the broad sweep of events of which he was a part. Al Smith lives in many memories, but until now he has never really come alive in the historians' pages.

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Contents

A Stage for Life
3
The Business of Government
18
Approaches to Leadership
39
Copyright

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Oscar Handlin
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Oscar Handlin
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OSCAR HANDLIN
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About the author (1958)

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Oscar Handlin received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he has taught since 1939 and was director of the Center for the Study of the History of Liberty until 1966. From 1979 to 1984, he was director of the university library at Harvard, and, after holding the Charles Warren chair in history for many years, in 1984 he became Charles M. Loeb University Professor. Handlin, who is a consensus historian and a strong advocate of civil rights, has written extensively on urban history and immigration. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1952 for The Uprooted (1951), his study of immigrants in the eastern cities of America written from the perspective of the immigrant. The son of immigrant parents himself, he made his special field of study the social history of immigrant groups who came to the United States in the nineteenth century from eastern and southern Europe. In The Americans (1963), as in others of his books, he dispensed with footnotes, bibliography, and identification of quotations in favor of "unobtrusive" learning. Handlin edited Children of the Uprooted (1966), which includes excerpts from various authors on the subject of the "marginality" of immigrants, and collaborated on a number of works with his first wife, Mary, and his second wife, Lillian. On the subject of education, he wrote The American University as an Instrument of Republican Culture (1970) and John Dewey's Challenge to Education: Historical Perspectives on the Cultural Context (1959).

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TitleAl Smith and His America
An Atlantic Monthly Press Book
Library of American biography
AuthorOscar Handlin
PublisherLittle, Brown, 1958
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedSep 19, 2008
ISBN0316343056, 9780316343053
Length207 pages
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Biography & Autobiography / Historical
Biography & Autobiography / Political
  
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