Mayor Corning : Albany icon, Albany enigma / Paul Grondahl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grondahl, Paul, 1959- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corning, Erastus, 1909-1983.

Corning, Erastus.

Mayors--New York (State)--Albany--Biography.

Mayors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (508 pages)

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, [2007]

Summary:

Erastus Corning 2nd was elected mayor of Albany eleven times, serving forty-two consecutive years, a tenure unsurpassed in American political history. Now available in paperback, Paul Grondahl's thoroughly researched and comprehensive biography of Albany's "mayor for life" offers a full, sweeping portrait of Corning, the charming, cunning, patrician front man for the dictatorial Albany Democratic machine. Filled with insight and anecdotes, this biography reveals the enigmatic mayor in ways even his closest associates never imagined.

Contents:

Mayor for life : he left his heart in city hall

Of iron and politics : the Corning family's roots

Thy father's will be done : the early years of Erastus Corning 2nd

Man, two families : the unusual home life of Mayor Corning

The never-ending story : Dan and Erastus and their durable machine

From Albany to Germany : the G.I.-mayor defends democracy and boosts the democratic machine

From Dewey to dwi : investigations against Corning and the machine

An open door to all : Mayor Corning at the office

A big fish in a little pond : the politics of Mayor Corning

Feeding his soul : the mayor in Maine and afield

Paving the pine bush and burning garbage for profit : Corning and the environment

The great manipulator : Corning and the press

From Maine to the South Mall : Corning vs. Rockefeller

Long on years, short on accomplishments : the record of Mayor Corning

The auction : selling off the memory of the mayor.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780791479094

0791479099