Empire Statesman
Subtitle: The Rise and Redemption of Al Smith
By: Robert A. Slayton.
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9781416567776
Subjects: Smith, Alfred Emanuel, 1873-1944; Presidential candidates -- United States -- Biography; Governors -- New York (State) -- Biography; Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1928; Irish Americans -- Biography; Catholics -- United States -- Biography; United States -- Politics and government -- 1901-1953; New York (State) -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Franklin Roosevelt is said to have explained Al Smith, and his own New Deal, with these words; "Practically all the things we've done in the federal government are the things Al Smith did as governor of New York." Smith, who ran for president in 1928, not only set the model for FDR, he also taught America that the promise of the country extends to everyone and no one should be left behind.".

"The story of this trailblazer is the story of America in the twentieth century. A child of second-generation immigrants, a boy self-educated on the streets of the nation's largest city, he went on to become the greatest governor in the history of New York; a national leader and symbol to immigrants, Catholics, and the Irish; and in 1928 the first Catholic major-party candidate for president. He was the man who championed safe working conditions in the wake of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire.

He helped build the Empire State Building. Above all, he was a national model, both for his time and for ours."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-467) and index.