Democracy Reformed by Bernard Hirschhorn
This biography, the first of Richard Spencer Childs, begins in the Progressive Era when Childs initiated and pursued two fertile ideas: the short ballot doctrine and the council-manager plan. Childs understood that the simplification of the task of the voter was a question pressing for solution and that the council-manager plan would transform municipal government. This comprehensive work discusses other aspects of Childs' broad reform agenda. His proposals included: county government reform; reform in state government administration; unicameral state legislatures; reapportionment of state legislatures; selection of judges by appointment; replacement of elective county coroners with appointed professional medical examiners; democratization of state political parties; and reform of the Presidential nominating system. Based on Childs' papers and personal interviews with Childs, this biography advances scholarship on the Progressive Era and contributes to the historiographical debate on the nature of reform.-
The Tormented President
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Henry Highland Garnet
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A Mythic Land Apart
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The French Forces in America, 1780-1783
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Bound with Them in Chains
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First Freedom
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History of Black Americans
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When Farmers Voted Red
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Abraham Lincoln
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California and the Dust Bowl Migration
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Christian Science in the Age of Mary Baker Eddy
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Expectations for the Millennium
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Manning the New Navy
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Alternative Constitutions for the United States
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Reexamining the Eisenhower Presidency
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French Newspaper Opinion on the American Civil War
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A Loyal Opposition in Time of War
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Henry A. Wallace and American Foreign Policy.
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Bread and Roses Too
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The Life of George Rogers Clark, 1752-1818
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Northern Schools, Southern Blacks, and Reconstruction
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People of the Plains and Mountains
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Socialism and Christianity in Early 20th Century America
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Working Dress in Colonial and Revolutionary America.
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Varieties of Southern History
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Beyond the Civil War Synthesis
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The Whiskey Rebellion
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City and Hinterland
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The Home-Front War
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The Journalist as Reformer
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Progressivism at Risk
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A Quest for Security
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From the Old South to the New
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Propaganda in an Open Society
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Radical Beginnings
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American Urbanism
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Keepers of Our Past
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Continuity and Change in Electoral Politics, 1893-1928.
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Campaigning in America
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Federal Antitrust Policy During the Kennedy-Johnson Years
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American Frontier and Western Issues
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The Absent Marx, The
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American Revolutionary
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James Glen
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The South Is Another Land
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Acres for Cents
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Reconciliation and Revival
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Loyalists and Community in North America
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American Political Trials, 2nd Edition
BERNARD HIRSCHHORN is a historian who is currently writing articles and book reviews on American subjects. He has held positions of Adjunct Professor of History at Bernard Baruch College of the City University of New York, high school social studies teacher at Martin Van Buren High School in Queens, and Chairman of the Department of Social Studies at Fiorello H. La Guardia High School in Manhattan.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780313301445 |
| ISBN 10 | 0313301441 |
| Title | Democracy Reformed |
| Author | Bernard Hirschhorn |
| Series | Contributions In American History Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Year published | 1997-07-23 |
| Number of pages | 264 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |