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TRAILBLAZERS IN POLITICS AND CIVIL RIGHTS

April 19, 2018 College of Arts and Humanities | History

Robert Chiles', a lecturer in the department of history, new book is featured in the New York Times.

Sam Roberts | New York Times

"Two recent biographies may galvanize readers currently feeling cheated by a shortage of contemporary political heroes.

"I, for one, can never get enough of New York’s 1920s governor Alfred E. Smith, whom Robert Chiles, a history lecturer at the University of Maryland, reanimates in 'The Revolution of ’28: Al Smith, American Progressivism, and the Coming of the New Deal' (Cornell University Press).

"In his distillation of the many volumes by earlier biographers, Mr. Chiles distinguishes Smith’s local progressivism from the national liberal agenda that Franklin D. Roosevelt labeled the New Deal and imposed in response to the Depression."

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