The Revolution of '28: Al Smith, American Progressivism, and the Coming of the New Deal

Author/Contributor(s):	Chiles, Robert
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	03/15/2018
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

The Revolution of '28 explores the career of New York governor and 1928 Democratic presidential nominee Alfred E. Smith. Robert Chiles peers into Smith's work and uncovers a distinctive strain of American progressivism that resonated among urban, ethnic, working-class Americans in the early twentieth century. The book charts the rise of that...