Understanding Dyslexia and Other Learning Disabilities by Linda Siegel

Understanding Dyslexia and Other Learning Disabilities by Linda Siegel

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Understanding Dyslexia and Other Learning Disabilities by Linda Siegel

Fiorello LaGuardia was one of the twentieth century's most colorful politicians--on the New York and national stage. He was also quintessentially American: the son of Italian immigrants, who rose in society through sheer will and chutzpah. Almost one hundred years later, America is once again grappling with issues that would have been familiar to the Little Flower, as he was affectionately known. It's time to bring back LaGuardia, argues historian and journalist Terry Golway, to remind us all what an effective municipal officer (as he preferred to call himself) can achieve ...

Golway examines LaGuardia's extraordinary career through four essential qualities: As a patriot, a dissenter, a leader, and a statesman. He needed them all when he stood against the nativism, religious and racial bigotry, and reactionary economic policies of the 1920s, and again when he faced the realities of Depression-era New York and the rise of fascism at home and abroad in the 1930s. Just before World War II, the Roosevelt administration formally apologized to the Nazis when LaGuardia referred to Hitler as a brown-shirted fanatic.

There was nobody quite like Fiorello LaGuardia. In this immensely listenable book, as entertaining as the man himself, Terry Golway captures the enduring appeal of one of America's greatest leaders.
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ISBN 13 9781926966298
ISBN 10 1926966295
Title Understanding Dyslexia and Other Learning Disabilities
Author Linda Siegel
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Pacific Educational Press
Year published 2013-07-25
Number of pages 295
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.