The American Mayor offers a unique ranking of the nation's big-city mayors by expert scholars. Although the mayoralty is one of the most important political executive offices, it has escaped the kind of evaluations by which scholars have ranked American presidents. Now, thanks to Melvin Holli, we have a comparable survey of the "best" and "worst" mayors, covering some 730 mayors from the big-fifteen cities, from the beginning of the modern office in 1820 to the 1990s. The poll of historians, biographers, and social scientists produced a remarkably strong consensus.
Who were...
The American Mayor offers a unique ranking of the nation's big-city mayors by expert scholars. Although the mayoralty is one of the most i...
The American Mayor offers a unique ranking of the nation's big-city mayors by expert scholars. Although the mayoralty is one of the most important political executive offices, it has escaped the kind of evaluations by which scholars have ranked American presidents. Now, thanks to Melvin Holli, we have a comparable survey of the "best" and "worst" mayors, covering some 730 mayors from the big-fifteen cities, from the beginning of the modern office in 1820 to the 1990s. The poll of historians, biographers, and social scientists produced a remarkably strong consensus.
Who were...
The American Mayor offers a unique ranking of the nation's big-city mayors by expert scholars. Although the mayoralty is one of the most i...
Historians have tended to point to John F. Kennedy's 1960 bid for the presidency as the first time a candidate relied extensively on public opinion polls to drive a campaign. Polling has come to define American politics, and is perhaps most clearly embodied in Bill Clinton, the post poll-driven president in history. Melvin G. Holli dismisses this notion, however, and reveals that presidential reliance on public opinion polls dates back to the New Deal Era, when Franklin Roosevelt employed a first-generation Finnish-American named Emil Hurja to conduct polls for this 1932 and 1936 presidential...
Historians have tended to point to John F. Kennedy's 1960 bid for the presidency as the first time a candidate relied extensively on public opinion po...
This award-winning study of ethnic life in Chicago richly details the various peoples and ethnic institutions in America's heartland city. This newly revised and expanded edition also includes chapters on African-American migration, Chatham, Latino Chicago, the Chinese in Chicago, Asian Indians, Korean-Americans, the new entrepreneurial immigrants, and the Swedes. There is also a new six-chapter section that examines saloons, sports, crime, churches, neighborhoods, and cemeteries.
This award-winning study of ethnic life in Chicago richly details the various peoples and ethnic institutions in America's heartland city. This newly ...
"The Mayors: The Chicago Political Tradition" taps America s most qualified observers to scrupulously assess the city s mayors within the vigorous and tumultuous history of Chicago government. This revised and updated edition features extensive commentary on the enduring mayoral influence of Richard M. Daley. In the seventeen years since "The Mayors" was first published, editors Paul M. Green and Melvin G. Holli write in the Preface to this edition, Chicago politics has become more genteel, more docile, and more predictable. This dampening of the city s once red-hot political coals is due...
"The Mayors: The Chicago Political Tradition" taps America s most qualified observers to scrupulously assess the city s mayors within the vigorous and...
This is a political biography of Hazen S. Pingree, Mayor of Detroit from 1890-1897, who established the first significant social reform administration of the time.
This is a political biography of Hazen S. Pingree, Mayor of Detroit from 1890-1897, who established the first significant social reform administrat...
Originally released in 1987, "The Mayors: The Chicago Political Tradition" gathered some of the finest minds in political thought to provide shrewd analysis of Chicago s mayors and their administrations. Twenty-five years later, this fourth edition continues to illuminate the careers of some of Chicago s most respected, forceful, and even notorious mayors, leaders whose lives were often as vibrant and eclectic as the city they served. In addition to chapters on the individual mayors including a new chapter on Rahm Emanuel, enhanced by an expert explanation of the current state of the city s...
Originally released in 1987, "The Mayors: The Chicago Political Tradition" gathered some of the finest minds in political thought to provide shrewd an...
