30 records matched your query
03506aam a2200385 i 4500 001 27B610D8D98A11E78F813B5397128E48 003 SILO 005 20171205010050 008 170331s2018 nyu b 001 0beng 010 $a 2017015740 020 $a 0190658940 020 $a 9780190658946 035 $a (OCoLC)980858576 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d YDX $d BTCTA $d BDX $d ERASA $d OCLCO $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- $a n-us--- 050 00 $a F125.3 C86 A83 2018 100 1 $a Ambar, Saladin M., $e author. 245 10 $a American Cicero : $b Mario Cuomo and the defense of American Liberalism / $c Saladin Ambar. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2018] 300 $a xvi, 202 pages ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Prologue: Tarmac -- Part I. Politics: Queens -- Part II. Poetry: San Francisco and South Bend -- Part III. Prose: Albany -- Part IV. Party: Washington -- Epilogue: Tramonti. 520 8 $a Mario Cuomo is in many respects one of the most significant liberal politicians in the postwar era: a three-term governor of one the nation's largest states and an eloquent defender of the Democratic Party's progressive legacy during a period of conservative ascendancy. Yet in other respects he never lived up to his supporters' hopes. His gubernatorial record was spotty, and when he had the chance to seek the presidency, he equivocated, Hamlet-like, before deciding against it and crushing the hopes of the party's progressive wing. His mixed record has made it very difficult for scholars and biographers to clarify his legacy. Was he a symbol of liberalism's long decline in twentieth-century American politics, or was he a prophet in the wilderness, heralding the rise of a new progressivism? Saladin Ambar's 'American Cicero' weaves elements of biography, political history, and political theory into a novel interpretation of Cuomo's life and legacy. 0Tracing his life from the streets of an immigrant neighborhood in Queens to his final years in Albany, Ambar argues that Cuomo kept the spent embers of liberalism alive in an era when it seemed that conservatism was approaching full-spectrum dominance-even within the Democratic Party itself. In a series of important speeches over the course of the 1980s, Cuomo drew upon his singular oratorical powers to offer a progressive vision that revived and expanded upon the policymaking legacy of the New Deal and Great Society. At a time when pessimism about presidential electoral prospects reigned in the Democratic Party, his voice-buttressed by a string of electoral victories in New York-provided succor to the liberal faithful. Unsurprisingly, party professionals saw him as the next great Democratic presidential candidate. Yet when he had the chance to run-in 1988 and 1992-he decided not to. His political career ended in 1994, when he was voted out of office in New York in a nationwide Republican wave.0. 600 10 $a Cuomo, Mario M., $d 1932-2015. 610 20 $a Democratic Party (U.S.) $v Biography. 650 0 $a Governors $z New York (State) $v Biography. 651 0 $a New York (State) $x Politics and government $y 1951- 650 0 $a Liberals $z United States $v Biography. 941 $a 3 952 $l PQAX094 $d 20231214023240.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231021011052.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180403020413.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=27B610D8D98A11E78F813B5397128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search