To Be Mayor of New York Ethnic Politics in the City

Name: To Be Mayor of New York Ethnic Politics in the City
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ISBN: 9780231076364

ISBN-10: 0231076363

ISBN-13: 9780231076364

Edition: 1993

Authors: Chris McNickle, Kenneth T. Jackson

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From Tammany Hall to the election of David Dinkins, To Be Mayor of New York offers insights into the effect of ethnic competition on the demise of urban political machines. Beginning with a colorful assessment of New York City's Tammany Hall as it existed in the late nineteenth century, McNickle traces the effect of the arrival of large numbers of Jewish and Italian immigrants -and later black and Puerto Rican migrants- on the Irish-dominated political machine. He focuses on the political passage of Jewish immigrants through the various small parties unique to New York -socialist, American Labor, and Liberal. Later he describes their attraction to various factions of the traditional…

Book details

List price: $110.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 6/3/1993
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 403
Size: 0.64" wide x 0.92" long x 0.11" tall
Weight: 1.606
Language: English

Chris McNickle was born in New York City and grew up in the Bronx. He is a consultant in the pension fund practice of Greenwich Associates, the international business strategy consulting firm, and has worked for the New York City Human Resources Administration, creating housing for the homeless; for the mayor's ofice in Chicago; and for the United States Department of State.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Ethnic Arithmetic / 1881-1901



Organized Religion / 1901-1941



The Machine Overhauled / 1942-1945



The Machine Breaks Down / 1945-1952



Robert F. Wagner and the Political Melting Pot / 1953-1957



Boss Blow-Out / 1938-1960



The Destruction of Tammany Hall / 1961



The Ambitions of John V. Lindsay / 1961-1965



The Politics of Polarization / 1966-1969



The Jewish Assumption / 1970-1977



The Chutzpah of Edward I. Koch / 1978-1988



A City in Search of Harmony / 1989



To Be Mayor of New York


Appendix / Ethnic Voting Statistics


Notes


Bibliography


Index