Frank & Al : FDR, Al Smith, and the unlikely alliance that created the modern Democratic Party / Terry Golway.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Golway, Terry, 1955- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democratic Party (U.S.).

History.

Democratic Party (U.S)--History.

Democratic Party (U.S.)--History--19th century.

Democratic Party (U.S.)--History--20th century.

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Smith, Alfred Emanuel, 1873-1944.

Smith, Alfred Emanuel.

Roosevelt, Franklin D (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.

Smith, Alfred Emanuel 1873-1944.

United States--Politics and government--1865-1933.

Local Subjects:

Democratic Party (U.S)--History.

Roosevelt, Franklin D (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.

Smith, Alfred Emanuel 1873-1944.

United States--Politics and government--1865-1933.

Genre:

History.

Nonfiction.

Physical Description:

322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Frank and Al

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, 2018.

Summary:

"The inspiring story of an unlikely political partnership--between a to-the-manor-born Protestant and a Lower East Side Catholic--that transformed the Democratic Party and led to the New Deal In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Democratic Party was bitterly split between its urban machines--representing Catholics and Jews, ironworkers and seamstresses, from the tenements of the northeast and Midwest--and its populists and patricians, rooted in the soil and the Scriptures, enforcers of cultural, political, and religious norms. The chasm between the two factions seemed unbridgeable. But just before the Roaring Twenties, Al Smith, a proud son of the Tammany Hall political machine, and Franklin Roosevelt, a country squire, formed an unlikely alliance that transformed the Democratic Party. Smith and FDR dominated politics in the most powerful state in the union for a quarter century, and in 1932 they ran against each other for the Democratic presidential nomination, setting off one of the great feuds in American history. The relationship between Smith and Roosevelt is one of the most dramatic untold stories of early 20th Century American politics. It was Roosevelt who said once that everything he sought to do in the New Deal had been done in New York under Al Smith when he was governor in the 1920s. It was Smith who persuaded a reluctant Roosevelt to run for governor in 1928, setting the stage for FDR's dramatic comeback after contracting polio in 1921. They took their party, and American politics, out of the 19th Century and created a place in civic life for the New America of the 20th Century"-- Provided by publisher.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Democratic Party was bitterly split between its urban machines and its populists and patricians. Just before the Roaring Twenties, Al Smith, a proud son of the Tammany Hall political machine, and Franklin Roosevelt, a country squire, formed an unlikely alliance and dominated politics in the most-powerful state in the union for a quarter-century. In 1932 they ran against each other for the Democratic presidential nomination, setting off one of the great feuds in American history. Golway shows how the two men took their party, and American politics, out of the 19th Century and created a place in civic life for the New America of the 20th Century. -- adapted from publisher info

Contents:

River families

Fathers, mothers, and sons

Young men in a hurry

Albany

Leadership

Fire

Changing times

Bridge building

Defeat

Resurrection

The darned old liquor question

The happy warrior

Uncivil war

The challenge of a new America

Confronting old America

Frank or Al

Frank vs. Al

Peace.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781250089649

1250089646

OCLC:

1016972532

Publisher Number:

99978535062