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St. Louis Politics

Author : Lana Stein
Publisher : Missouri History Museum
ISBN 13 : 9781883982447
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book St. Louis Politics written by Lana Stein and published by Missouri History Museum. This book was released on 2002 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are two defining moments in St. Louis political history: the 1876 divorce of the city from its county and the 1914 charter adoption. The institutions created at these times produced a factional and fragmented city government, thoroughly grounded in machine politics. Stein examines major themes in urban politics over the last century: race, redevelopment, suburbanization, and leadership. St. Louis mayors must deal with the comptroller and the president of the board of aldermen plus twenty-eight aldermen elected from wards. State law says the city must also have eight county offices--offices that perform county functions for the city. Power is difficult to amass in this factional and fragmented universe. In St. Louis politics, consensus building and alliances can prove to be more important than election-night victory. St. Louis's political culture stems from the city's fragmented nature. Its philosophy is often: "you go along to get along" or "go home from the dance with the guy that brung you." Individual friendships are of great importance. Within this environment, class and racial cleavages also affect political decision making. Although St. Louis elected its first African American official in 1918, genuine political incorporation has been long in coming. Several decades ago, issues of class and race prevented St. Louis from adopting a new charter, with more streamlined public offices. Today, some St. Louisans cry out for home rule and governmental reform. Stein's work helps to demonstrate that institutions structure political behavior and outcomes. Changing institutions can make a difference, after political culture adapts to the new playing field.

Mapping Decline

Author : Colin Gordon
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812291506
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Mapping Decline written by Colin Gordon and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014-09-12 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once a thriving metropolis on the banks of the Mississippi, St. Louis, Missouri, is now a ghostly landscape of vacant houses, boarded-up storefronts, and abandoned factories. The Gateway City is, by any measure, one of the most depopulated, deindustrialized, and deeply segregated examples of American urban decay. "Not a typical city," as one observer noted in the late 1970s, "but, like a Eugene O'Neill play, it shows a general condition in a stark and dramatic form." Mapping Decline examines the causes and consequences of St. Louis's urban crisis. It traces the complicity of private real estate restrictions, local planning and zoning, and federal housing policies in the "white flight" of people and wealth from the central city. And it traces the inadequacy—and often sheer folly—of a generation of urban renewal, in which even programs and resources aimed at eradicating blight in the city ended up encouraging flight to the suburbs. The urban crisis, as this study of St. Louis makes clear, is not just a consequence of economic and demographic change; it is also the most profound political failure of our recent history. Mapping Decline is the first history of a modern American city to combine extensive local archival research with the latest geographic information system (GIS) digital mapping techniques. More than 75 full-color maps—rendered from census data, archival sources, case law, and local planning and property records—illustrate, in often stark and dramatic ways, the still-unfolding political history of our neglected cities.

Grassroots at the Gateway

Author : Clarence Lang
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472026542
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Grassroots at the Gateway written by Clarence Lang and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-04-23 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a theoretically sophisticated and thoroughly documented historical case study of the movements for African American liberation in St. Louis. Through detailed analysis of black working class mobilization from the depression years to the advent of Black Power, award-winning historian Clarence Lang describes how the advances made in earlier decades were undermined by a black middle class agenda that focused on the narrow aims of black capitalists and politicians. The book is a major contribution to our understanding of the black working class insurgency that underpinned the civil rights and Black Power campaigns of the twentieth century." ---V. P. Franklin, University of California, Riverside "A major work of scholarship that will transform historical understanding of the pivotal role that class politics played in both civil rights and Black Power activism in the United States. Clarence Lang's insightful, engagingly written, and well-researched study will prove indispensable to scholars and students of postwar American history." ---Peniel Joseph, Brandeis University Breaking new ground in the field of Black Freedom Studies, Grassroots at the Gateway reveals how urban black working-class communities, cultures, and institutions propelled the major African American social movements in the period between the Great Depression and the end of the Great Society. Using the city of St. Louis in the border state of Missouri as a case study, author Clarence Lang undermines the notion that a unified "black community" engaged in the push for equality, justice, and respect. Instead, black social movements of the working class were distinct from---and at times in conflict with---those of the middle class. This richly researched book delves into African American oral histories, records of activist individuals and organizations, archives of the black advocacy press, and even the records of the St. Louis' economic power brokers whom local black freedom fighters challenged. Grassroots at the Gateway charts the development of this race-class divide, offering an uncommon reading of not only the civil rights movement but also the emergence and consolidation of a black working class. Clarence Lang is Assistant Professor in African American Studies and History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Photo courtesy Western Historical Manuscript Collection, University of Missouri, St. Louis

The Sidewalks of St. Louis

Author : George Lipsitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Sidewalks of St. Louis written by George Lipsitz and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In twenty-seven vignettes, Lipsitz explores the lives of oddballs and outcasts, immigrants and artists, those whose stories are often left out of traditional history books, but whose labor and imagination made St. Louis the city it is today.

The City Government of Saint Louis

Author : Marshall Solomon Snow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The City Government of Saint Louis written by Marshall Solomon Snow and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Holding Bureaucrats Accountable

Author : Lana Stein
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 9780817305192
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Holding Bureaucrats Accountable written by Lana Stein and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lana Stein looks at the taxing question of how to make bureaucracies responsible to elected officials Stein carefully scrutinizes St. Louis bureaucracy, distinguishing those agencies that are responsive to elected officials from those that are not. On the responsive side, for example, she cites the Traffic Division of the Department of Streets, which has erected about 1,000 four-way stop signs (compared to 34 in Kansas City) because the aldermen, responding to parents concerned about the safety of their street-crossing kids, demanded them. Similarly, she finds that building inspectors are responsive to aldermen's requests that individual buildings receive priority attention. To tenants worried about unsafe living conditions, that's an important and meaningful gesture

We Elect!

Author : Saint Louis (Mo.). Board of Education
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We Elect! written by Saint Louis (Mo.). Board of Education and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Broken Heart of America

Author : Walter Johnson
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541646061
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book The Broken Heart of America written by Walter Johnson and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A searing portrait of the racial dynamics that lie inescapably at the heart of our nation, told through the turbulent history of the city of St. Louis. From Lewis and Clark's 1804 expedition to the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, American history has been made in St. Louis. And as Walter Johnson shows in this searing book, the city exemplifies how imperialism, racism, and capitalism have persistently entwined to corrupt the nation's past. St. Louis was a staging post for Indian removal and imperial expansion, and its wealth grew on the backs of its poor black residents, from slavery through redlining and urban renewal. But it was once also America's most radical city, home to anti-capitalist immigrants, the Civil War's first general emancipation, and the nation's first general strike—a legacy of resistance that endures. A blistering history of a city's rise and decline, The Broken Heart of America will forever change how we think about the United States.

A Report on Politics in Saint Louis

Author : Kenneth E. Gray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Report on Politics in Saint Louis written by Kenneth E. Gray and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Republican National Convention, St. Louis, June 16th to 18th, 1896

Author : Charles Mitchell Harvey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Republican National Convention, St. Louis, June 16th to 18th, 1896 written by Charles Mitchell Harvey and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fragmented by Design

Author : Endsley Terrence Jones
Publisher : Palmerston & Reed
ISBN 13 : 9780911921533
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Fragmented by Design written by Endsley Terrence Jones and published by Palmerston & Reed. This book was released on 2000-06-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With almost 100 municipalities, the largest of which is also its own county, the structure of local government in St. Louis is indeed unique and is one of the most frequently discussed and debates topics in the region. Critics claim its duplicated services are a wasteful use of resources while supporter praise the convenience afforded by numerous small city governments. Written by local political science scholar, E. Terrence Jones, Fragmented By Design is the first book to fully chronicle the development of this structure and its implications for the St. Louis region.

The Politics of Urban Planning

Author : Dennis R. Judd
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Urban Planning written by Dennis R. Judd and published by Urbana : University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Pogrom

Author : Charles L. Lumpkins
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821418033
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book American Pogrom written by Charles L. Lumpkins and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 2 and 3, 1917, race riots rocked the small industrial city of East St. Louis, Illinois. American Pogrom takes the reader beyond that pivotal time in the city's history to explore black people's activism from the antebellum era to the eve of the post-World War II civil rights movement. Charles Lumpkins shows that black residents of East St. Louis had engaged in formal politics since the 1870s, exerting influence through the ballot and through patronage in a city dominated by powerful real estate interests even as many African Americans elsewhere experienced setbacks in exercising their political and economic rights. While Lumpkins asserts that the race riots were a pogrom--an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group--orchestrated by certain businessmen intent on preventing black residents from attaining political power and on turning the city into a "sundown" town permanently cleared of African Americans, he also demonstrates how the African American community survived. He situates the activities of the black citizens of East St. Louis in the context of the larger story of the African American quest for freedom, citizenship, and equality.

The Particularistic President

Author : Douglas L. Kriner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107038715
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Particularistic President written by Douglas L. Kriner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the holders of the only office elected by the entire nation, presidents have long claimed to be sole stewards of the interests of all Americans. Scholars have largely agreed, positing the president as an important counterbalance to the parochial impulses of members of Congress. This supposed fact is often invoked in arguments for concentrating greater power in the executive branch. Douglas L. Kriner and Andrew Reeves challenge this notion and, through an examination of a diverse range of policies from disaster declarations, to base closings, to the allocation of federal spending, show that presidents, like members of Congress, are particularistic. Presidents routinely pursue policies that allocate federal resources in a way that disproportionately benefits their more narrow partisan and electoral constituencies. Though presidents publicly don the mantle of a national representative, in reality they are particularistic politicians who prioritize the needs of certain constituents over others.

St. Louis, a Preliminary Survey of Certain Departments of the Government of the City of St. Louis

Author : Bureau of Municipal Research (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book St. Louis, a Preliminary Survey of Certain Departments of the Government of the City of St. Louis written by Bureau of Municipal Research (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Republican National Convention

Author : Charles M. Harvey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781330909898
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Republican National Convention written by Charles M. Harvey and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Republican National Convention: St. Louis, June 16th to 18th, 1896; Illustrated; With a History of the Republican Party and a Survey of National Politics Since the Party's Foundation, Etc;, Etc The scope and purpose of this book could not readily be fully set forth on the title page. The largest single feature of the book is its record of the proceedings of the Republican National Convention of 1896, which it gives with a close approach to absolute completeness. This presents the speeches of the Convention's Temporary Chairman and Permanent President; the platform; the committees; the rules by which the Convention was governed; the speeches on both sides in the contests for seats; the silver substitute for the financial plank of the platform; Senator Teller's address in favor of the substitute; the votes by which the substitute was rejected and the financial plank adopted; the silverites' protest and valedictory read by Senator Cannon; the bolt of the silver men and the scenes attending it; the speeches presenting the various aspirants for President and Vice-President and the votes for each, and all in the order in which they occurred. The speeches, platform, rules and silver men's protest are given verbatim and the votes are all given by States. All are presented in attractive shape for permanent reference. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

City Schools and City Politics

Author : John Portz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book City Schools and City Politics written by John Portz and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An explanation of why some US cities are better at educational reform than others. It relates education to politics, showing how the whole village can be mobilized to better educate tomorrow's citizens. It is based on an 11-city study of civic capacity and urban education.