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Bernie's Brooklyn : how growing up in the New Deal city shaped Bernie Sanders' politics / Theodore Hamm.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hamm, Theodore, 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Homes.
- Politics and government.
- Sanders, Bernard--Homes and haunts--New York (State)--New York.
- Sanders, Bernard.
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--History--20th century.
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.).
- New York (N.Y.)--Politics and government--20th century.
- New York (N.Y.).
- New York (State)--New York.
- New York (State)--New York--Brooklyn.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 220 pages : illustrations, map ; 18 cm
- Edition:
- First printing.
- Other Title:
- How growing up in the New Deal city shaped Bernie Sanders' politics
- Place of Publication:
- New York : OR Books, [2020]
- Summary:
- Bernie Sanders' tilt at the US presidency has come under fire from an establishment that derides his social democratic policies as alien to the American way. But, as Ted Hamm reveals in this concise history, the sort of socialism Bernie advocates was commonplace in the Brooklyn where he grew up in the 1940s and 50s. Policies like free college tuition, rent control, and infrastructure projects including extensive public housing, parks and swimming pools were part of the New Deal city run by a progressive Mayor, Fiorello La Guardia, and supported by FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt. While Arthur Miller, resident in Brooklyn Heights, was staging Death of a Salesman, a play with which Bernie's dad closely identified, Woody Guthrie was penning his paeans to the American worker in Coney Island and Jackie Robinson was breaking the color bar on Ebbets Field in a Dodgers team yet to be relocated in California. Drawing on interviews with his brother and friends, and delving into the history of the borough, Hamm shows how, far from being an anomaly in US politics, Sanders' 2020 platform is rooted firmly in the progressivism of the New Deal. --From publisher description.
- Contents:
- FDR and LGA
- Flatbush at war
- Eleanor's Brooklyn
- Fiorello's farewell
- Brooklyn at the forefront
- The ebony express
- The salesman
- Mermaid Avenue
- Cold War Brooklyn
- Track star.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [212]-218) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781682192405
- 1682192407
- 9781682192436
- 1682192431
- OCLC:
- 1242992465
- Publisher Number:
- 99993272476
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