People/Characters Al Smith
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- The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
- Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism by Susan Jacoby
- Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by H. W. Brands
- Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America by Michael Harriot
- Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker by Stacy A. Cordery
- Sky Boys: How They Built the Empire State Building by Deborah Hopkinson
- The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight by Winston Groom
- Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City by Anthony Flint
- Presidential Campaigns: From George Washington to George W. Bush by Paul F. Boller
- Almost President: The Men Who Lost The Race But Changed The Nation by Scott Farris
- Lost Battalions: The Great War and the Crisis of American Nationality by Richard Slotkin
- Empire Statesman: The Rise and Redemption of Al Smith by Robert A. Slayton
- H.L. Mencken on Religion by H. L. Mencken
- Alfred E. Smith: The Happy Warrior by Christopher M. Finan
- Al Smith and his America by Oscar Handlin
- John F. Kennedy! (Action Presidents) by Fred Van Lente
- Bob Feller: Ace of the Greatest Generation by John Sickels
- Belle Moskowitz: Feminine Politics and the Exercise of Power in the Age of Alfred E. Smith by Elisabeth Israels Perry
- Up to Now, An Autobiography by Alfred E. Smith
- Governor Al Smith by James Aloysius Farley
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| Description | 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. Wikipedia |