To Be Mayor of New York

Ethnic Politics in the City

By: Chris McNickle

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Hardcover | 3 June 1993 | Edition Number 1

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From Tammany Hall to the election of David Dinkins, To Be Mayor of New York offers insights into the effect of ethnic competition on the demise of urban political machines.

Beginning with a colorful assessment of New York City's Tammany Hall as it existed in the late nineteenth century, McNickle traces the effect of the arrival of large numbers of Jewish and Italian immigrants -and later black and Puerto Rican migrants- on the Irish-dominated political machine. He focuses on the political passage of Jewish immigrants through the various small parties unique to New York -socialist, American Labor, and Liberal. Later he describes their attraction to various factions of the traditional Democratic and Republican parties. He spotlights the willingness of large numbers of Jewish voters to cast ballots for third-party candidates on the basis of their shared philosophical commitments and political priorities.

McNickle then examines mayoral campaigns between 1945, the end of the LaGuardia era, and 1989, during which the Irish receded and Jews and later African-Americans emerged as the most important ethnic groups in local politics. To Be Mayor of New York offers the most complete study of the development of Jewish political participation in New York. Placing a rise of the New York City Reform Movement in historical perspective, the author explains the election of New York's first Jewish mayor, Abe Beame, and the first African-American mayor, David Dinkins, as part of the political evolution of both these groups.

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"To Be Mayor of New York" offers a knowing reading of New York's politics from the beginning of the century, tracing the ethnic predilections of the electorate through the succession of mayoral campaigns...This book is interesting, insightful, and useful.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Ethnic Arithmetic / 1881-1901	p. 5
Organized Religion / 1901-1941	p. 20
The Machine Overhauled / 1942-1945	p. 41
The Machine Breaks Down / 1945-1952	p. 65
Robert F. Wagner and the Political Melting Pot / 1953-1957	p. 91
Boss Blow-Out / 1938-1960	p. 124
The Destruction of Tammany Hall / 1961	p. 148
The Ambitions of John V. Lindsay / 1961-1965	p. 180
The Politics of Polarization / 1966-1969	p. 210
The Jewish Assumption / 1970-1977	p. 237
The Chutzpah of Edward I. Koch / 1978-1988	p. 271
A City in Search of Harmony / 1989	p. 293
To Be Mayor of New York	p. 315
Appendix / Ethnic Voting Statistics	p. 329
Notes	p. 335
Bibliography	p. 381
Index	p. 397
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