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Download or read book Mayor Corning written by Paul Grondahl and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2007-09-07 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grondahl’s classic biography of Albany’s “mayor for life,” now available in paperback.
Book Synopsis Mayor Erastus Corning by : Paul Grondahl
Download or read book Mayor Erastus Corning written by Paul Grondahl and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2007-09-07 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grondahl’s classic biography of Albany’s “mayor for life,” now available in paperback.
Book Synopsis Politics and Ponies by : Bill Heller
Download or read book Politics and Ponies written by Bill Heller and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politics and Ponies is an engaging and compelling biography and memoir of Howard Nolan, a man who was born to love his two passions at an early age and let them lead him on a lifelong journey filled with opportunities and amazing success. The reader is invited to experience his fascinating lifestyle as he shares his globetrotting adventures in the politics of state governance and the world of Thoroughbred breeding and racing. With stunning consistency, Howard won election after election serving as a New York state senator from 1974 through 1994. The record shows that he had more votes on a major party line than any other senator. One of his more memorable elections was in 1983 when he won a surprising victory in the Republican dominated town of Bethlehem, which hadnt elected a local Democrat in its 188 year history. Howard was always pushing for positive change and challenging the status quo, which is why his relationship with Albany mayor Erastus Corning, backed by the powerful Democratic machine, was often tumultuous. He was called Albanys Man of La Mancha, because he dared to take on the unbeatable foe in Corning, which helped to bring Albany into the modern era. So, get ready to be impressed by an American original who built a lasting legacy around Politics and Ponies.
Download or read book O Albany! written by William Kennedy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1985-09-03 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kennedy's O Albany! is in part the non-fictional stories he covered in his novels, Legs and Billy Phelan's Greatest Game. Kennedy retells the exploits of the bootlegger Jack 'Legs' Diamond, the bungled 1933 kidnapping of John O'Connell, Jr., heir to the Albany Democratic machine and explores the Albany of his past, including its demographics and vanished neighborhoods.
Book Synopsis Take City Hall! by : Daniel Evan Button
Download or read book Take City Hall! written by Daniel Evan Button and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring success story, "Take City Hall!" chronicles Tom Whalen's rise as heir of the legendary, longest-tenured Mayor in U.S. history, the "patrician" Erastus Corning.
Book Synopsis I Rose Like a Rocket by : Paul Grondahl
Download or read book I Rose Like a Rocket written by Paul Grondahl and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""Albany Times Union" reporter Grondahl does an outstanding job of documenting Theodore Roosevelt's evolution from brash young political reformer to shrewd and pragmatic political operator, always with his eye on various idealistic prizes."--"Publishers Weekly."
Download or read book The True written by Sharr White and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2019 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it comes to Polly Noonan, there’s no fine line between the political and personal. For her…it’s only personal. Especially now that her hero, “mayor for life” Erastus Corning, is in a pitched battle for control of the Albany Democratic Party. THE TRUE explores the bounds of love, loyalty, and female power in the male-dominated world of 1977 machine politics.
Book Synopsis Off the Sidelines by : Kirsten Gillibrand
Download or read book Off the Sidelines written by Kirsten Gillibrand and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • United States Senator Kirsten Gillibrand recounts her personal journey in public service and galvanizes women to make a meaningful difference in the world around them. “One of the most helpful, readable, down-to-earth, and truly democratic books ever to come out of the halls of power.”—Gloria Steinem Off the Sidelines is a playbook for women who want to step up, whether in Congress or the boardroom or the local PTA. If women were fully represented in politics, Gillibrand says, national priorities would shift to issues that directly impact them: affordable daycare, paid family medical leave, and equal pay. Pulling back the curtain on Beltway politics, she speaks candidly about her legislative successes (securing federally funded medical care for 9/11 first responders, repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell) and her crushing disappointments (failing by five votes to pass a bill protecting survivors of sexual assault in the military). Gillibrand also shares stories of growing up the daughter and granddaughter of two trailblazing feminists in a politically active family in Albany, New York, and retraces her nonlinear path to public office. She lays bare the highs and lows of being a young (pregnant!) woman in Congress, the joys and sacrifices every working mother shares, and the support system she turns to in her darkest moments: her husband, their two little boys, and lots of girlfriends. In Off the Sidelines, Gillibrand is the tough-love older sister and cheerleader every woman needs. She explains why “ambition” is not a dirty word, failure is a gift, listening is the most effective tool, and the debate over women “having it all” is absurd at best and demeaning at worst. In her sharp, honest, and refreshingly relatable voice, she dares us all to tap into our inner strength, find personal fulfillment, and speak up for what we believe in. Praise for Off the Sidelines “Gillibrand has written a handbook for the next generation of women to redefine their role in our world.”—Arianna Huffington “There are moments of immensely appealing self-disclosure that seldom appear in other books of this genre. . . . This isn’t your mother’s political memoir.”—The New York Times Book Review
Book Synopsis Machine Politics by : Frank S. Robinson
Download or read book Machine Politics written by Frank S. Robinson and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Man Who Saved New York by : Seymour P. Lachman
Download or read book The Man Who Saved New York written by Seymour P. Lachman and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2011 Empire State History Book Award presented by New York State Archives Partnership Trust The Man Who Saved New York offers a portrait of one of New York's most remarkable governors, Hugh L. Carey, with emphasis on his leadership during the fiscal crisis of 1975. In this dramatic and colorful account, Seymour P. Lachman and Robert Polner's examine Carey's youth, military service, and public career against the backdrop of a changing, challenged, and recession-battered city, state, and nation. It was Carey's leadership, Lachman and Polner argue, that helped rescue the city and state from the brink of financial and social ruin. While TV comedians mocked and tabloids shrieked about the Big Apple's rising muggings, its deteriorating public services, and the threats and walkouts by embattled police, firefighters, and teachers, all amid a brutal recession, Carey and his team managed to hold on and ultimately prevailed, narrowly preventing a huge disruption to the state, national, and global economy. At one point, the city came within a few hours of having to declare itself incapable of paying its debts and obligations, but in the end stability and consensus prevailed, and America's largest city stayed out of bankruptcy court. The center held. Based on extensive interviews with Carey and his family, as well as numerous friends, observers, and former advisors, including Steven Berger, David Burke, John Dyson, Peter Goldmark, Judah Gribetz, Richard Ravitch, and Felix Rohatyn, The Man Who Saved New York aims to place Carey and his achievements at the center of the financial maelstrom that met his arrival in Albany. While others were willing to let the city go into default, Carey was strongly opposed, since it would not only affect the state as a whole but would have reverberations both nationally and internationally. In recounting the 1975 rescue of New York City and the aftershocks that nearly sank the state government, Lachman and Polner illuminate the often-volatile interplay among elite New York bankers, hard-nosed municipal union leaders, the press, and influential conservatives and liberals from City Hall to the Albany statehouse to the White House. Although often underappreciated by the public, it was Carey's force of will, wit, intellect, judgment, and experiences that allowed the state to survive this unparalleled ordeal and ultimately to emerge on a stronger footing. Further, Lachman and Polner argue, Carey's accomplishment is worth recalling as a prime example of how governments—local, state, and federal—can work to avoid the renewed the threat of bankruptcy that now confronts many overstretched states and localities.
Book Synopsis These Exalted Acres: Unlocking the Secrets of Albany Rural Cemetery by : Paul Grondahl
Download or read book These Exalted Acres: Unlocking the Secrets of Albany Rural Cemetery written by Paul Grondahl and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Henry and Clara written by Thomas Mallon and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the evening of Good Friday, 1865, Henry Rathbone and Clara Harris joined the Lincolns in the Presidential box at Ford’s Theater, becoming eyewitnesses to one of the great tragedies of American history. In this riveting novel, Thomas Mallon re-creates the unusual love story of this young engaged couple whose fateful encounter with history profoundly affects the remainder of their lives. Lincoln’s assassination is only one part of the remarkable life they share, a dramatic tale of passion, scandal, heroism, murder, and madness, all based on Mallon’s deep research into the fascinating history of the Rathbone and Harris families. Henry and Clara not only tells the astonishing story of its title figures; it also illuminates the culture of nineteenth-century Victorian America: a rigid society barely concealing the suppressed impulses and undercurrents that only grew stronger as the century progressed.
Download or read book The Snow Geese written by Sharr White and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2014-08-25 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With war raging abroad, newly widowed Elizabeth Gaesling gathers her family for their annual shooting party, to mark the opening of hunting season in rural upstate New York. But Elizabeth is forced to confront a new reality as her carefree eldest son comes to terms with his impending deployment overseas and her younger son discovers that the father they all revered left them deeply in debt. Together, the family must let go of the life they've always known.
Book Synopsis We Who Believe in Freedom by : Alice Green
Download or read book We Who Believe in Freedom written by Alice Green and published by King Jesus Press LLC. This book was released on 2021-12-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We Who Believe in Freedom: Activism and the Struggle for Social Justice" is a memoir about topics such as police abuse and accountability, criminal justice and prison reform, and political abuse of power in Albany, New York.
Book Synopsis When the World was Green (a Chef's Fable) by : Joseph Chaikin
Download or read book When the World was Green (a Chef's Fable) written by Joseph Chaikin and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: A hauntingly lyrical memory play, WHEN THE WORLD WAS GREEN is steeped in the elliptical, poetic style for which Shepard is justly celebrated. Sketched out in just a handful of scenes is a world of sensual delight, of great journeys to di
Book Synopsis Bernhardt/Hamlet by : Theresa Rebeck
Download or read book Bernhardt/Hamlet written by Theresa Rebeck and published by Concord Theatricals. This book was released on 2019 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Twain wrote: “There are five kinds of actresses: bad actresses, fair actresses, good actresses, great actresses – and then there is Sarah Bernhardt.” In 1899, the international stage celebrity set out to tackle her most ambitious role yet: Hamlet. Theresa Rebeck’s new play rollicks with high comedy and human drama, set against the lavish Shakespearean production that could make or break Bernhardt’s career.
Book Synopsis Prominent Families of New York by : Lyman Horace Weeks
Download or read book Prominent Families of New York written by Lyman Horace Weeks and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
