Pennsylvania Politics Today and Yesterday The Tolerable Accommodation

Name: Pennsylvania Politics Today and Yesterday The Tolerable Accommodation
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ISBN: 9780271002385

ISBN-10: 0271002387

ISBN-13: 9780271002385

Edition: 1980

Authors: Paul B. Beers

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A sort of rough justice characterized the Pennsylvania political scene, this book argues, if we define justice in Learned Hand's words as "the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society."According to the Prologue: "Reform always has worked better in Pennsylvania as an issue-based effort, rather than a broad political movement." According to the Epilogue: "Although 1978 was a year of intense competition, in the end--in revisions so typical of Pennsylvania--both the old and the new politics were refuted, while the comfortable middle-road was chosen."Beers explains the Keystone State's rejection of ideological extremes by reviewing its traditional virtues: tolerance of…

Book details

List price: $60.95
Copyright year: 1980
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Publication date: 3/14/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 488
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: "Vest-Pocket Edition of the World"


Prologue: Rivalry without Rancor



The Rogues


John Wanamaker 1838-1922


The Vares 1859-1934


Edwin A. Van Valkenburg 1864-1932


A. Mitchell Palmer 1872-1936



Pinchot Republicanism


Cornelia Bryce Pinchot 1881-1960


James J. Davis 1873-1947


The Mellons 1813-1970


Joseph R. Grundy 1862-1961



The Earle Scandals


John J. McClure 1886-1965


Arthur H. James 1883-1973


The Annenbergs 1878-


Charles J. Margiotti 1891-1956


The Guffeys 1870-1970



Big Red


Edward Martin 1879-1967


M. Harvey Taylor 1876-



Tragic John Fine


The Pews 1848-1971



Clark, Dilworth, and Philadelphia Reform



Mister Clean


Hugh Scott 1900-



The Comeback of David Leo Lawrence


Genevieve Blatt 1913-



Golden Bill Scranton


George I. Bloom 1897--



Debacle


Martin Patrick Mullen 1921-



Citizen Shapp


Robert Patrick Casey 1932-


Herbert Fineman 1920-


Henry J. Cianfrani, Jr. 1923-


K. Leroy Irvis 1919-


Richard Schultz Schweiker 1926- and Henry John Heinz III 1938-


Frank C. Hilton 1909-


Epilogue: Thornburgh Election


Bibliography


Index