Life of the Party: Kenneth F. Simpson and the Survival of the Republicans in 1930s New York

Kenneth D. Durr

ISBN 10: 0972887474 / ISBN 13: 9780972887472

Published by Montrose Press, 2009

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With very good dust jacket. Very Good hardcover with light shelfwear - NICE! Standard-sized.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Life of the Party: Kenneth F. Simpson and the Survival of the Republicans in 1930s New York
• Publisher: Montrose Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0972887474
• ISBN 13: 9780972887472
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

This is a biography of a man who lived at the intersection of a number of historical currents in the early twentieth century, from his upbringing in the Progressive era to his leadership among the first liberal Republicans of the 1930s. His life and career involved such notables as Theodore Roosevelt, Prescott Bush, John J. McCloy, Gertrude Stein, Fiorello LaGuardia, Bruce Barton, Thomas Dewey, and Wendell Willkie, to name only a few. Most importantly, the book documents a critical struggle in American politics that is today highly worthy of study: the Republican Party's contentious attempts to grapple with its new minority status during the New Deal Years. In fast-paced prose it lays out the terms of disagreement among Republicans (which mirror those that exist today) and introduces the reader to key players in Republican politics both nationally and locally. Simpson's warning to Republicans in the 1930s is worth considering now: "If we turn toward reaction we might as well fold up. If we look forward we cannot miss."

About the Author

Kenneth D. Durr is Executive Vice-President and director of the History Division at History Associates Incorporated in Rockville, Maryland. He is the author of several works of twentieth-century economic and political history, including Behind the Backlash: White Working-Class Politics in Postwar Baltimore, 1940-1980, and A Company With a Mission: Rodman Rockefeller and The International Basic Economy Corporation 1947-1985.