A recreation of events during the century's most pivotal year focuses on the day of October 21, 1929, when a gala celebration in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Edison's invention of the incandescent lamp took place while Wall Street tottered on thebrink of disaster

1929, America Before the Crash

History

Sloat, Warren

Americas

Macmillan Pub. Co.

In 1892, when Rev. Charles H. Parkhurst (1842-1933) emerged as the most controversial figure in the city, New York was leaderless. The police ruled the streets with nightsticks, extorting vast sums of money from the flourishing vice industry. Every day more boatloads of immigrants—mostly Russian Jews—arrived on the Lower East Side, while the Irish controlled the machinery of the city through Tammany Hall. The uptown rich, who despised politics as degrading, were working on table arrangements for the next Patriarchs' Ball, while below Fourteenth Street firebrand radicals tested their new freedoms by advocating insurrection. Disguising himself, Parkhurst plunged into New York's criminal underworld. There, in police-protected dens of prostitution, gambling and after-hours saloons, the uptown pastor of the Madison Square Presbyterian Church found the evidence for a sermon that rocked the city. Over the next three years this charismatic hero exposed the brutal police department; overthrew the corrupt political machine that ran New York; and instilled a fresh forward-looking spirit that resulted in a dramatic urban renewal. Warren Sloat herein addresses such intriguing issues as: what motivated Parkhurst to take on such an implacable array of foes; how Parkhurst was able to unite the progressive elements of New York-uptown reformers, suffragist women, and poor immigrants; how "the blue wall of silence," even a century ago, covered up police wrongdoing; how women participated in Parkhurst's battle to win over the city; and how a naïve and idealistic pastor became a savvy political leader, a canny campaigner, and an influential voice in shaping public opinion. A Battle for the Soul of New York chronicles the uncertain and shifting transition between the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, and features anarchists, gangsters, swaggering cops, prostitutes, saloon owners, and a narrative that gathers momentum and sweeps to a rousing conclusion. It is the dramatic, previously untold story about how democrac

Battle for the Soul of New York: Tammany Hall, Police Corruption, Vice, and Reverend Charles Parkhurst's Crusade Against Them, 1892-1895

Cooper Square Pub

More than a mere overview of what may well be the most crucial year in American history, and not at all a nostalgia trifle, 1929 is a dramatic tale of a nation leading the rest of the world into the twentieth century―brilliantly aware of the surge of energy that has made it the leading world power, and yet blind to the destiny that waits in the caverns of Wall Street. 1929 reveals how important figures in the nation and the world―Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Herbert Hoover, H. L. Menken, and many others―redirected the twentieth century in America's last period of enterprise and energy before the Depression.

1929: America Before the Crash

UNKNO

The growth of the suburbs has changed the face of America. Every aspect of life has been affected, including the daily newspaper.  The Press and the Suburbs examines the phenomenon of suburban journalism by telling the story of the twenty-six daily newspapers of New Jersey. Is suburban journalism good journalism? Is it possible to judge newspapers the way reviewers rate restaurants, with three stars going to the best? Sachsman and Sloat answer these questions and in doing so make a significant contribution to the study of newspapers in America.

The Press and the Suburbs: The Daily Newspapers of New Jersey

Sachsman, David B.

Business & Money

Rutgers Univ Center for Urban

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1929, America Before the Crash

Battle for the Soul of New York: Tammany Hall, Police Corruption, Vice, and Reverend Charles Parkhurst's Crusade Against Them, 1892-1895

1929: America Before the Crash

The Press and the Suburbs: The Daily Newspapers of New Jersey