The Unheralded Triumph : City Government in America, 1870-1900 / / Jon C. Teaford.
In 1888 the British observer James Bryce declared "the government of cities" to be "the one conspicuous failure of the United States." During the following two decades, urban reformers would repeat Bryce's words with ritualistic regularity; nearly a century later, his commen...
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