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To Be Mayor of New York - Ethnic Politics in the City (Hardcover, New)
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To Be Mayor of New York - Ethnic Politics in the City (Hardcover, New)
Series: Columbia History of Urban Life
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From the heyday of Tammany Hall - to the election of David Dinkins,
To Be Mayor of New York is an engrossing and thoroughly researched
narrative that captures New York City politics in all its
complexity and points out the ways ethnic competition affects the
selection of New York's mayor. Beginning with a colorful account of
late nineteenth century Tammany Hall - New York's Democratic Party
organization - McNickle assesses the response of the
Irish-dominated political machine to the arrival of Jewish and
Italian immigrants and later to blacks and Puerto Ricans. He shows
how, in a pattern unique to New York, the participation of large
numbers of Jewish workers in a variety of splinter parties -
Socialist, American Labor, and Liberal - affected the city's ethnic
coalitions in the years leading up to Fiorello LaGuardia's three
terms as mayor, and beyond. Focusing next on the election campaigns
since 1945, McNickle traces a shift in political predominance from
the Irish to the Jews, and then to African-Americans, as New York's
politicians adapted their coalitions to the city's changing ethnic
and racial composition. To Be Mayor of New York captures the
excitement of Mayor Robert Wagner's political combat with Tammany
boss Carmine DeSapio in 1961, and the promise of John V. Lindsay's
election in 1965, followed by disillusionment with his
administration. It traces the rise of Abe Beame and Edward I. Koch,
the city's only Jewish mayors, and of David Dinkins, New York's
first African-American mayor. McNickle shows how the careers of
these men were part of the political evolution of their respective
ethnic groups. To Be Mayor of New York concludes with an analysis
of the 1989 mayoral election, and takes a hard look at the
political landscape facing David Dinkins and his challengers in
1993.
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