Political Corruption In Bridgeport

Author : Rob Sullivan
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625847065

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Political Corruption in Bridgeport by Rob Sullivan Pdf

First incorporated in 1836, Bridgeport is notorious for a raucous political history that includes both liberating accomplishments and salacious scandals. From a state senator who spent several years in prison for racketeering to a mayor who was caught taking drugs while in office, Bridgeport has had its fair share of unlawful politicians. The political playground of the city has also seen invigorating leaders who fought hard to bring jobs, industries and prosperity to the community. The city's most famous mayor was none other than circus impresario P.T. Barnum. Discover the stories behind some of the most contentious elections, like the alleged ballot stuffing that ended the twenty-four-year era of socialist mayor Jasper McLevy or the power politics and threats that landed John Mandanici in office. Join author and reporter Rob Sullivan as he brings the Park City's fiery political history alive.

Author : Peter F. Burns
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791482261

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Electoral Politics Is Not Enough by Peter F. Burns Pdf

Focusing on four medium-sized northeastern cities with strong political traditions, Electoral Politics Is Not Enough analyzes conditions under which white leaders respond to and understand minority interests. Peter F. Burns argues that conventional explanations, including the size of the minority electorate, the socioeconomic status of the citizenry, and the percentage of minority elected officials do not account for variations in white leaders' understanding of and receptiveness toward African American and Latino interests. Drawing upon interviews with more than 200 white and minority local leaders, and through analysis of local education and public safety policies, he finds that unconventional channels, namely neighborhood groups and community-based organizations, strongly influence the representation of minority interests.

Author : Anna Domaradzka,Pierre Hamel
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781839109652

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Handbook on Urban Social Movements by Anna Domaradzka,Pierre Hamel Pdf

Providing an overview of urban social movements from a diverse range of both empirical and theoretical perspectives, this Handbook includes not only a critical analysis of the transformations that have occurred in the urban landscape recently, but also sheds light on the strategies implemented by social actors in various socio-political and cultural contexts. It focuses on understanding better how and to what extent collective action around urban issues remains relevant in our modern world. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.

Author : Cecelia Bucki
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Bridgeport (Conn.)
ISBN : 025202687X

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Bridgeport's Socialist New Deal, 1915-36 by Cecelia Bucki Pdf

A backdrop to the evolving national developments of the New Deal, this study stands at the intersection of political, labor, and ethnic history and provides a new perspective on how working people affected urban politics in the interwar era."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Kim Long
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307481344

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The Almanac of Political Corruption, Scandals, and Dirty Politics by Kim Long Pdf

Watergate. Billygate. Iran-Contra. Teapot Dome. Monica Lewinsky.American history is marked by era-defining misdeeds, indiscretions, and the kind of tabloid-ready scandals that politicians seem to do better than anyone else. Now, for the first time, one volume brings together 300 years of political wrongdoing in an illustrated history of politicians gone wild—proving that today’s scoundrels aren’t the first, worst, and surely won’t be the last…. From high crimes to misdemeanors to moments of licentiousness and larceny, this unique compendium captures in complete, colorful detail the foibles, failings, peccadilloes, dirty tricks, and astounding blunders committed by politicians behaving badly. Amid stories of brawlers, plagiarists, sexual predators, tax evaders, and the temporarily insane, this almanac tells all about: •The only (so far!) president to be arrested while in office: Ulysses S. Grant, who was allegedly issued a ticket for racing his horse and buggy through the streets of Washington, D.C. •The former New Jersey state senator David J. Friedland, who disappeared during a scuba diving accident in 1985. It turns out he staged the accident and served nine years in prison after being captured in the Maldives. •Tape-recorded instructions from highbrow president Franklin Delano Roosevelt on how his staff should carry out some low-down political tricks •The bizarre story of U.S. congressman Robert Potter, who castrated two men he suspected of having affairs with his wife. Potter won election to the state house while in jail—but was kicked out for cheating at cards. •Texas congressman Henry Barbosa Gonzalez: he was charged with assault in 1986 after he shoved and hit a man who called him a communist. Gonzalez was seventy years old at the time. At once shocking and hilariously funny, here’s a book that exposes the history of American politics, warts and all—and makes for hours of jaw-dropping, fascinating, illuminating reading.

Author : Jack Ross
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781612347509

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The Socialist Party of America by Jack Ross Pdf

At a time when the word “socialist” is but one of numerous political epithets that are generally divorced from the historical context of America’s political history, The Socialist Party of America presents a new, mature understanding of America’s most important minor political party of the twentieth century. From the party’s origins in the labor and populist movements at the end of the nineteenth century, to its heyday with the charismatic Eugene V. Debs, and to its persistence through the Depression and the Second World War under the steady leadership of “America’s conscience,” Norman Thomas, The Socialist Party of America guides readers through the party’s twilight, ultimate demise, and the successor groups that arose following its collapse. Based on archival research, Jack Ross’s study challenges the orthodoxies of both sides of the historiographical debate as well as assumptions about the Socialist Party in historical memory. Ross similarly covers the related emergence of neoconservatism and other facets of contemporary American politics and assesses some of the more sensational charges from the right about contemporary liberalism and the “radicalism” of Barack Obama.

Author : Wilbur L Cross
Publisher : City Point Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781947951167

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Connecticut Yankee by Wilbur L Cross Pdf

Equal parts nostalgic, witty, self-serving, and frank, Connecticut Yankee is an entertaining and informative memoir of the state and a scholar who shaped it. Connecticut native, Yale graduate, Yale professor and dean, and finally, unlikely Governor of the State of Connecticut during the crucial Depression years, Wilbur L. Cross’s autobiography tells a great American story. As a Yale professor, a writer, and an editor, Wilbur L. Cross devoted himself to the English language, and specifically to understanding how novels were capable of capturing the human condition. His autobiography, Connecticut Yankee is in many ways a novel itself. The protagonist is Cross and the plot is his education. Wilbur Lucius Cross was a most unlikely politician. A noted author and literary critic who had been a professor of English, editor of the Yale Review, and finally, Dean of the Yale Graduate School, his quiet character and almost poetic oration would seem at odds with the cut-throat world of state politics. But is was just this stoic demeanor and inquisitive intelligence, that would help him make a mark on Connecticut politics during his four terms of office, from 1931 to 1939. During his time as governor, he suffered the hardest years of the Depression and worked to implement President Roosevelt’s New Deal, fought for the abolition of child labor, instituted a minimum wage, improved working conditions in factories, and guided the state’s recovery from the devastation of the Great New England Hurricane. He also strove to reorganize the state government, and would help revitalize Connecticut’s Democratic Party, which had been torn by internal strife. Cross was an excellent writer, and here—updated with a new foreword by Yale Law School graduate and author Justin Zaremby—is his compelling account of life from a childhood in the bucolic town of Mansfield, through the hallowed halls of learning at Yale University, to the highest office in Connecticut.

Author : Frank García
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781477329436

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Clicas by Frank García Pdf

How Latina/o/x gang literature and film represent women and gay gang members’ challenges to gendered, sexual, racial, and class oppression. Clicas examines Latina/o/x literature and film by and/or about gay and women gang members. Through close readings of literature and film, Frank García reimagines the typical narratives describing gang membership and culture, amplifying and complicating critical gang studies in the social sciences and humanities and looking at gangs across racial, ethnic, and national identities. Analyzing how the autobiographical poetry of Ana Castillo presents gang fashion, culture, and violence to the outside world, the effects of women performing female masculinity in the novel Locas, and gay gang members’ experiences of community in the documentary Homeboy, García complicates the dialogue regarding hypermasculine gang cultures. He shows how they are accessible not only to straight men but also to women and gay men who can appropriate them in complicated ways, which can be harming and also, at times, emancipating. Reading gang members as (de)colonial agents who contest the power relations, inequalities, oppressions, and hierarchies of the United States, Clicas considers how women and gay gang members resist materially and psychologically within a milieu shaped by the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, and class.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
ISBN : PSU:000063511512

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Allegations of Selective Prosecution by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security Pdf

Author : Joseph L. Simmons Jr.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781665579520

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“Just Buy My Vote” by Joseph L. Simmons Jr. Pdf

It is a federal and state felony to buy or sell votes, or to offer to buy or sell votes, yet “Just Buy My Vote”: African American Voting Rights, and the Chicago Condition is a unique story that must be told. It is a story where I attempt to summarize without excruciating detail the relevant portions of nearly three centuries. “Just Buy My Vote” is also unique in that it covers race relations, black history and urban history; written from the perspective of the Southside of Chicago. “Just Buy My Vote” is intended to inform the reader about the significance of voting, by explaining voting rights in layman terms, with the use of the voting rights laws, history, philosophy, and sociology. It is an effort to raise the level of political consciousness among Americans, to help readers to realize the history of voting rights and be encouraged to use the power of the vote to further all of our best economic and social interests. Thankfully, in the presidential election of 2020, we got the voting part right! We now have a democracy to save. “Just Buy My Vote” is a tale of two stories. First, it tells a story about how African Americans in this country attained the right to vote, and utilized that power to improve their lives, and the lives of many others, for future generations. And secondly, “Just Buy My Vote” uses Chicago as a case study of how voting rights and voter apathy, helped enable an old school “political villain” and his machine, to maintain a system of public and governmental corruption in Chicago for two decades. In my writing this book, I aimed to inform on history, and have also attempted to describe a journey, within a journey.

Author : David K. Fremon
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0253313449

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Chicago Politics, Ward by Ward by David K. Fremon Pdf

The 1983 mayoral primary and general elections proved a watershed in Chicago politics, in which entire wards quit allegiances of the past. New voting patterns formed which generally continued into the 1987 elections. Covers the Council Wars and the election of Harold Washington as Mayor of Chicago in 1983.

Author : ROBERT NATHANIEL ORIYAMA'AT
Publisher : Author House
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781456727840

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HEAVEN O HELL by ROBERT NATHANIEL ORIYAMA'AT Pdf

From the Islands of Cuba. Coming from the boat like Tony Montana, comes Maximo Cienfuegos at a young age to get a close up look. Here is a boy who was filled with mad ambition and lust to see the ghettos of America. So here he is in the urban jungles of Brooklyn to get a handle of Hard Knock Life and to show a side that the ghetto had never seen. That side is a side that an average OG would die for. This story of Maximo is about the struggle of day to day of blacks and latinos in America. the gunplay, the wild friendships, the crazy opportunities to a loving relationship with a great friendship..... In Cuba, where the weather is so beautiful and rich with the beautiful fruits and palm trees to the gritty streets of Brooklyn, New York (The Planet) Where most kids hit the block for fame.....To the streets of Bridgeport Connecticut, where the OGs, there are up to no good and much drama is in. Finally in the Boston Massachusetts Area for a getaway peace. But how long will this last? Check this book out to see if peace can ever last in the world of Maximo with all the ambition. This book is filled the lots of action and spontaneous scenes.

Author : Bernard H. Ross,Myron A. Levine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317452751

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Urban Politics by Bernard H. Ross,Myron A. Levine Pdf

This popular text mixes the best classic theory and research on urban politics with the most recent developments in urban and metropolitan affairs. Its very balanced and realistic approach helps students to understand the nature of urban politics and the difficulty of finding effective solutions in a suburban and global age. The eighth edition provides a comprehensive review and analysis of urban policy under the Obama administration and brand new coverage of sustainable urban development. A new chapter on globalization and its impact on cities brings the history of urban development up to date, and a focus on the politics of local economic development underscores how questions of economic development have come to dominate the local arena. The eighth edition is significantly shorter than previous editions, and the entire text has been thoroughly rewritten to engage students. Boxed case studies of prominent recent and current urban development efforts provide material for class discussion, and concluding material demonstrates the tradeoff between more ideal and more pragmatic urban politics.

Author : Daniel R. Ernst
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0252065123

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Lawyers Against Labor by Daniel R. Ernst Pdf

A major revision of the history of labor law in the United States in the early twentieth century, "Lawyers against Labor" goes beyond legal issues to consider cultural, political, and industrial history as well. In the first full treatment of the turn-of-the-century American Anti-Boycott Association(AABA), Daniel Ernst ably leads the reader through a compelling story of business and politics. The AABA was an organization of small- to medium-sized employers whose staff litigated and lobbied against organized labor. Ernst captures in depth the characters involved, bringing them to life with a writer's eye and a touch of wit. As he examines the AABA at work to combat trade unions through the courts, he introduces its most notable leaders, Daniel Davenport and Walter Gordon Merritt - who personified the opposing points of view - and shows how pluralism had won itself a place in the legal, academic, political, corporate, and even trade-union worlds long before the New Deal.

Author : John P. Gawlak
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781450226523

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A Voice in the Village Square by John P. Gawlak Pdf

CURRENT AFFAIRS Silence gives consent, there is much truth in this saying. American history tells us that even unpopular rulings by the Supreme Court were overturned as concerned citizens took to the streets in protest. This has its roots in the Boston Tea Party. We are seeing stirrings in todays tea party gatherings. A Voice in the Village Square gives insight as to why public vigilance is necessary against political corruption. If allowed to continue through public apathy, it only grows bolder. As a voice in the village square, the writer intends to stem the incursion that tramples the common good.