Al Smith, American Progressivism, and the Coming of the New Deal
by
Robert Chiles
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
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...