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Author:
Clavel, Pierre.
Title:
Activists in City Hall : the progressive response to the Reagan era in Boston and Chicago / Pierre Clavel.
Publisher:
Cornell University Press,
Copyright Date:
2010
Description:
xx, 232 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Boston (Mass.)--Politics and government.
Chicago (Ill.)--Politics and government.
Community activists--Boston.--Boston.
Community activists--Chicago.--Chicago.
Urban policy--Boston.--Boston.
Urban policy--Chicago.--Chicago.
Flynn, Raymond L.
Washington, Harold,--1922-1987.
Progressivism (United States politics)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The progressive city : concept and context -- What the progressive city was -- The movement becomes politics in Boston -- Flynn's City Hall and the neighborhoods -- Neighborhood background and the campaign in Chicago -- Washington in City Hall -- Later developments in Chicago -- Race, class, and the administrative struggle.
Series:
Cornell paperbacks
ISBN:
0801476550 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780801476556 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0801449294 (alk. paper)
9780801449291 (alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)610206670
LCCN:
2010017637
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

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