Herbert H Lehman

Author : Duane Tananbaum
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438463197
Total Pages : 986 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Herbert H. Lehman written by Duane Tananbaum and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of New York State's four-term Governor, US Senator, humanitarian, and Jewish liberal political reformer. This new biography of Herbert Lehman—the first in a half century—fills the void left by historians and political scientists who have neglected one of the truly great liberal icons of the mid-twentieth century. Based on extensive research in archival sources, Herbert H. Lehman restores this four-term Governor of New York, US Senator, national and international humanitarian, and political reformer to his rightful place among the pantheon of liberal heroes of his era. By focusing on Lehman’s interactions with Al Smith, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, and John Kennedy, Duane Tananbaum shows how Lehman succeeded politically despite his refusal to compromise with his conscience. In his thirty-five years of public service, Herbert Lehman fought the Republicans in the State Legislature to provide economic security for New Yorkers during the Great Depression, and he battled the bureaucrats in the Roosevelt and Truman administrations and the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration to feed the starving people in Europe and Asia during and after World War II. His efforts on behalf of “the welfare state,” civil rights legislation, and immigration reform helped keep the liberal agenda alive until Congress, and the nation, were ready to enact it into law as part of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society in 1964–1965. Duane Tananbaum is Professor of American History at Lehman College, City University of New York, and the author of The Bricker Amendment Controversy: A Test of Eisenhower’s Political Leadership.

Author : Robert P. Ingalls
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1062 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Herbert H. Lehman and New York's Little New Deal written by Robert P. Ingalls and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 1062 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert P. Ingalls
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1062 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Herbert H. Lehman and New York's Little New Deal written by Robert P. Ingalls and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 1062 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Herbert Henry Lehman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Papers of Herbert H. Lehman written by Herbert Henry Lehman and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects the public papers of Governor Lehman from the years 1933-1942, with each year given its own volume.

Author : Allan Nevins
Publisher : New York : Scribner
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Herbert H. Lehman and His Era. [Illustr.] - New York: Scribner (1963). 456 S. 8° written by Allan Nevins and published by New York : Scribner. This book was released on 1963 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eric K Washington
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1631493221
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boss of the Grips written by Eric K Washington and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a feat of remarkable research and timely reclamation, Eric K. Washington uncovers the nearly forgotten life of James H. Williams (1878–1948), the chief porter of Grand Central Terminal’s Red Caps—a multitude of Harlem-based black men whom he organized into the essential labor force of America’s most august railroad station. Washington reveals that despite the highly racialized and often exploitative nature of the work, the Red Cap was a highly coveted job for college-bound black men determined to join New York’s bourgeoning middle class. Examining the deeply intertwined subjects of class, labor, and African American history, Washington chronicles Williams’s life, showing how the enterprising son of freed slaves successfully navigated the segregated world of the northern metropolis, and in so doing ultimately achieved financial and social influence. With this biography, Williams must now be considered, along with Cornelius Vanderbilt and Jacqueline Onassis, one of the great heroes of Grand Central’s storied past.

Author : United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Publisher : Stamford, Conn. : Overbrook Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Herbert H. Lehman, Director General, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, 1943-1946 written by United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and published by Stamford, Conn. : Overbrook Press. This book was released on 1946 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert D. Lifset
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822979551
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power on the Hudson written by Robert D. Lifset and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beauty of the Hudson River Valley was a legendary subject for artists during the nineteenth century. They portrayed its bucolic settings and humans in harmony with nature as the physical manifestation of God's work on earth. More than a hundred years later, those sentiments would be tested as never before.In the fall of 1962, Consolidated Edison of New York, the nation's largest utility company, announced plans for the construction of a pumped-storage hydroelectric power plant at Storm King Mountain on the Hudson River, forty miles north of New York City. Over the next eighteen years, their struggle against environmentalists would culminate in the abandonment of the project. Robert D. Lifset offers an original case history of this monumental event in environmental history, when a small group of concerned local residents initiated a landmark case of ecology versus energy production. He follows the progress of this struggle, as Con Ed won approvals and permits early on, but later lost ground to environmentalists who were able to raise questions about the potential damage to the habitat of Hudson River striped bass. Lifset uses the struggle over Storm King to examine how environmentalism changed during the 1960s and 1970s. He also views the financial challenges and increasingly frequent blackouts faced by Con Ed, along with the pressure to produce ever-larger quantities of energy. As Lifset demonstrates, the environmental cause was greatly empowered by the fact that through this struggle, for the first time, environmentalists were able to gain access to the federal courts. The environmental cause was also greatly advanced by adopting scientific evidence of ecological change, combined with mounting public awareness of the environmental consequences of energy production and consumption. These became major factors supporting the case against Con Ed, spawning a range of new local, regional, and national environmental organizations and bequeathing to the Hudson River Valley a vigilant and intense environmental awareness. A new balance of power emerged, and energy companies would now be held to higher standards that protected the environment.

Author : David N. Gellman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501715860
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberty’s Chain written by David N. Gellman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-15 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Liberty's Chain, David N. Gellman shows how the Jay family, abolitionists and slaveholders alike, embodied the contradictions of the revolutionary age. The Jays of New York were a preeminent founding family. John Jay, diplomat, Supreme Court justice, and coauthor of the Federalist Papers, and his children and grandchildren helped chart the course of the Early American Republic. Liberty's Chain forges a new path for thinking about slavery and the nation's founding. John Jay served as the inaugural president of a pioneering antislavery society. His descendants, especially his son William Jay and his grandson John Jay II, embraced radical abolitionism in the nineteenth century, the cause most likely to rend the nation. The scorn of their elite peers—and racist mobs—did not deter their commitment to end southern slavery and to combat northern injustice. John Jay's personal dealings with African Americans ranged from callousness to caring. Across the generations, even as prominent Jays decried human servitude, enslaved people and formerly enslaved people served in Jay households. Abbe, Clarinda, Caesar Valentine, Zilpah Montgomery, and others lived difficult, often isolated, lives that tested their courage and the Jay family's principles. The personal and the political intersect in this saga, as Gellman charts American values transmitted and transformed from the colonial and revolutionary eras to the Civil War, Reconstruction, and beyond. The Jays, as well as those who served them, demonstrated the elusiveness and the vitality of liberty's legacy. This remarkable family story forces us to grapple with what we mean by patriotism, conservatism, and radicalism. Their story speaks directly to our own divided times.

Author : Sherrod Brown
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374722021
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desk 88 written by Sherrod Brown and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since his election to the U.S. Senate in 2006, Ohio’s Sherrod Brown has sat on the Senate floor at a mahogany desk with a proud history. In Desk 88, he tells the story of eight of the Senators who were there before him. "Perhaps the most imaginative book to emerge from the Senate since Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts produced Profiles in Courage." —David M. Shribman, The Boston Globe Despite their flaws and frequent setbacks, each made a decisive contribution to the creation of a more just America. They range from Hugo Black, who helped to lift millions of American workers out of poverty, to Robert F. Kennedy, whose eyes were opened by an undernourished Mississippi child and who then spent the rest of his life afflicting the comfortable. Brown revives forgotten figures such as Idaho’s Glen Taylor, a singing cowboy who taught himself economics and stood up to segregationists, and offers new insights into George McGovern, who fought to feed the poor around the world even amid personal and political calamities. He also writes about Herbert Lehman of New York, Al Gore Sr. of Tennessee, Theodore Francis Green of Rhode Island, and William Proxmire of Wisconsin. Together, these eight portraits in political courage tell a story about the triumphs and failures of the Progressive idea over the past century: in the 1930s and 1960s, and more intermittently since, politicians and the public have successfully fought against entrenched special interests and advanced the cause of economic or racial fairness. Today, these advances are in peril as employers shed their responsibilities to employees and communities, and a U.S. president gives cover to bigotry. But the Progressive idea is not dead. Recalling his own career, Brown dramatizes the hard work and high ideals required to renew the social contract and create a new era in which Americans of all backgrounds can know the “Dignity of Work.”