People/Characters: Al Smith

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The 1932 Campaign An analysis by Roy Victor Peel
Action Presidents #4: John F. Kennedy! by Fred Van Lente
After Wilson: The Struggle for the Democratic Party, 1920-1934 by Douglas B. Craig
Alfred E. Smith: A Critical Study by Henry F. Pringle
Alfred E. Smith: The Happy Warrior by Christopher M. Finan
Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker by Stacy A. Cordery
Almost President: The Men Who Lost The Race But Changed The Nation by Scott Farris
The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight by Winston Groom
Belle Moskowitz: Feminine Politics and the Exercise of Power in the Age of Alfred E. Smith by Elisabeth Israels Perry
Black AF History : the un-whitewashed story of America by Michael Harriot
Bob Feller: Ace of the Greatest Generation by John Sickels
A Catholic Runs for President: The Campaign of 1928 by Edmund Arthur Moore
the collapse of the democratic presidential majority: realignment, dealignment, and electoral change from franklin roosevelt to bill clinton by David G. Lawrence
Empire Statesman: The Rise and Redemption of Al Smith by Robert A. Slayton
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism by Susan Jacoby
Governor Al Smith by James Aloysius Farley
H.L. Mencken on Religion by H. L. Mencken
The Happy Warrior: The Story of My Father, Alfred E. Smith by Emily Smith Warner
Labor politics in a democratic republic; modernization, division, and disruption in the presidential election of 1928 by Vaughn Davis Bornet
Lost Battalions by Richard Slotkin	Alfred E. Smith
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
Prejudice and the Old Politics: The Presidential Election of 1928 by Allan J. Lichtman
Presidential Campaigns: From George Washington to George W. Bush by Paul F. Boller
Sky Boys by Deborah Hopkinson	New York governor
Al Smith and his America by Oscar Handlin
Al Smith: Hero of the Cities; A Political Portrait Drawing on the Papers of Frances Perkins by Matthew Josephson
Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by H. W. Brands
Up from the city streets: Alfred E. Smith; a biographical study in contemporary politics by Norman Hapgood
Up to Now, An Autobiography by Alfred E. Smith
Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City by Anthony Flint

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Alfred Emanuel Smith (December 30, 1873 – October 4, 1944) was an American politician who served four terms as the 42nd governor of New York and was the Democratic Party's presidential nominee in 1928. Smith was the first Roman Catholic to be nominated for president of the United States by a major party.

In his political career, Smith built on his working-class beginnings, identifying himself with immigrants and campaigning as a man of the people. Christopher M. Finan (2003) says Smith is an underestimated symbol of the changing nature of American politics in the first half of the last century. He represented the rising ambitions of urban, industrial America at a time when the hegemony of rural, agrarian America was in decline. Smith was connected to the hopes and aspirations of immigrants, especially Catholics and Jews from eastern and southern Europe. The 1928 election initiated a complete voter realignment of African-Americans, who overwhelmingly supported the Republican Party prior to 1928. Hoover sought "Southern Strategy" for the election, and sided with the segregationist lily-white Republicans at the expense of the pro-civil rights black and tans.

In 1939 Smith was appointed a Papal Chamberlain of the Sword and Cape, one of the highest honors which the Papacy bestowed on a layman.
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Alfred Emanuel Smith (December 30, 1873 – October 4, 1944) was an American politician who served four terms as the 42nd governor of New York and was the Democratic Party's presidential nominee in 1928. Smith was the first Roman Catholic to be nominated for president of the United States by a major party. In his political career, Smith built on his working-class beginnings, identifying himself with immigrants and campaigning as a man of the people. Christopher M. Finan (2003) says Smith is an underestimated symbol of the changing nature of American politics in the first half of the last century. He represented the rising ambitions of urban, industrial America at a time when the hegemony of rural, agrarian America was in decline. Smith was connected to the hopes and aspirations of immigrants, especially Catholics and Jews from eastern and southern Europe. The 1928 election initiated a complete voter realignment of African-Americans, who overwhelmingly supported the Republican Party prior to 1928. Hoover sought "Southern Strategy" for the election, and sided with the segregationist lily-white Republicans at the expense of the pro-civil rights black and tans. In 1939 Smith was appointed a Papal Chamberlain of the Sword and Cape, one of the highest honors which the Papacy bestowed on a layman. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Smith" rel="nofollow" target="_new">Wikipedia</a>

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