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3615. Al Smith and His America, by Oscar Handlin (read 11 Aug 2002) This is not a full-fledged bio, but only 192 pages without a footnote. It relies some on his daughter's book, which I read on 9 Aug 2002, but Handlin deprecates Smith's course after 1932, which is an attitude I think right. Not a bad book, but pretty familiar since I had just read his daughter's book, and on Feb 2, 2002 read Empire Statesman: The Rise and Redemption of Al Smith, by Robert A. Slayton, which is an able and modern biography.
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Born in Brooklyn, New York, Oscar Handlin received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he has taught since 1939 and was director of the Center for the Study of the History of Liberty until 1966. From 1979 to 1984, he was director of the university library at Harvard, and, after holding the Charles Warren chair in history for many years, in show more 1984 he became Charles M. Loeb University Professor. Handlin, who is a consensus historian and a strong advocate of civil rights, has written extensively on urban history and immigration. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1952 for The Uprooted (1951), his study of immigrants in the eastern cities of America written from the perspective of the immigrant. The son of immigrant parents himself, he made his special field of study the social history of immigrant groups who came to the United States in the nineteenth century from eastern and southern Europe. In The Americans (1963), as in others of his books, he dispensed with footnotes, bibliography, and identification of quotations in favor of "unobtrusive" learning. Handlin edited Children of the Uprooted (1966), which includes excerpts from various authors on the subject of the "marginality" of immigrants, and collaborated on a number of works with his first wife, Mary, and his second wife, Lillian. On the subject of education, he wrote The American University as an Instrument of Republican Culture (1970) and John Dewey's Challenge to Education: Historical Perspectives on the Cultural Context (1959). (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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