Empire Statesman (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert A. Slayton
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1873-1944
- Setting: The United States
- Principal Characters: Al Smith, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Sr., Catherine Mulvihill Smith, Emanuel Smith, William Gibbs McAdoo, Herbert Hoover, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, New York City, 1940’s, 1910’s, 1920’s, 1930’s, Elections, Politicians, Ku Klux Klan, Catholics or Catholic Church, Work or workers, Governors, 1900’s, Democratic Party
- Locales: United States
Alfred Emanuel Smith, Jr., is unquestionably the hero of this highly favorable biography of a political leader the author believes has been underestimated and unjustly forgotten. Slayton asserts that Smith’s major claim to fame was his role in expanding American democracy. America in the 1920’s, Slayton contends,
was a nation torn apart, split between an older, rural society and the modern, urban age. In a period of intolerance and ignorance, marked by the Ku Klux Klan and the Scopes trial, no other politician at this high a level did more to demand that the new generation of...
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