LaGuardia in Congress / / Howard Zinn.

• VerfasserIn: Zinn, Howard,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (302 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; 1. The New Congressman from Manhattan, 1917 --; 2. Fighting the War, in Congress and at the Front --; 3. The Issues of Peace, 1919 --; 4. Bitter Interlude, 1920-1922 --; 5. Return to Congress in the Age of "Prosperity" --; 6. LaGuardia, La Follette, and Progressivism, 1922-1924 --; 7. Battling Nativism in the Coolidge Era --; 8. The Legacy of the Red Scare --; 9. Pointing to a New Foreign Policy --; 10. The Battle for Public Power in the Twenties --; 11. The "Other Half" in the New Gilded Age --; 12. LaGuardia and Progressive Politics, 1924-1929 --; 13. Hunger vs. Private Enterprise: First Round --; 14. Second Round: Relief, Public Works, and Tear Gas --; 15. "Foul Birds of Prey": The Financiers --; 16. Triumph on Two Fronts: Taxes and Labor Injunctions --; 17. Communism, Nativism, and Foreign Policy --; 18. Political Defeat and Moral Victory, 1932-1933 --; 19. Fiorello LaGuardia in Congress: An Appraisal --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501730078
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501730078
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Howard Zinn.

Fiorello LaGuardia is known best as the tempestuous mayor of New York City in the days when Franklin Delano Roosevelt sat in the White House. There had been, however, an earlier time, which matched his mayoralty years in sheer drama and perhaps surpassed them in lasting achievement—LaGuardia's years in Congress.He served in the House of Representative almost continuously from 1917 to 1933, representing two ethnically diverse congressional districts: the Fourteenth (Greenwich Village), from 1917 to 1919, and the Twentieth (East Harlem), from 1923 to 1933. Although barred from important committee posts because of his political independence and thus denied from playing a direct role in lawmaking, he was a tireless and vocal champion of Progressive causes, from allowing more immigration and removing U.S. troops from Nicaragua to speaking up for the rights and livelihoods of striking miners, impoverished farmers, oppressed minorities, and struggling families. A goad to the era's plutocrats and their enablers in government, LaGuardia fought for progressive income taxes, greater government oversight of Wall Street, and national employment insurance for workers idled by the Great Depression.In this book, first published by Cornell University Press in 1959, Howard Zinn establishes LaGuardia's tenure in Congress as a vital link between the Progressive and New Deal eras, offering a lively and informative account of his many legislative battles, his political philosophy, and the distinctly urban (specifically, New York City) sensibilities he brought to the Progressive movement.