LA GUARDIA, Fiorello Henry, 1882-1947

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Extended Bibliography

Bayor, Ronald H. Fiorello La Guardia: Ethnicity and Reform. Arlington Heights, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, Inc. 1993.

Capeci, Dominic J. “Fiorello H. La Guardia and the American Dream: A Document.” Italian Americana 4 (Fall/Winter 1978): 1-21.

———. “Fiorello H. La Guardia and the Harlem ‘Crime Wave’ of 1941.” New York Historical Society Quarterly 64 (January 1980): 7-29.

———. “From Different Liberal Perspectives: Fiorello H. La Guardia, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., and Civil Rights in New York City, 1941-1943.” Journal of Negro History 62 (April 1977): 160-73.

Cuneo, Ernest. Life With Fiorello; A Memoir. New York: Macmillan, 1955.

Elliot, Lawrence. Little Flower: The Life and Times of Fiorello La Guardia. New York: Morrow, 1983.

Garrett, Charles. La Guardia Years; Machine and Reform Politics in New York City. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1961.

Hargrove, Edwin C., Jr. “The Tragic Hero in Politics: Theodore Roosevelt, David Lloyd, and Fiorello La Guardia.” Parts I and II. Ph.D. diss., Yale University, 1963.

Hazeltine, Alice Isabel, comp. We Grew Up in America, pp. 166-73. New York: Abingdon, 1954.

Heckscher, August, with Phyllis Robinson. When La Guardia Was Mayor: New York’s Legendary Years. New York: Norton, 1978.

Kessner, Thomas. Fiorello La Guardia and the Making of Modern New York. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1989.

La Guardia, Fiorello H. The Making of an Insurgent. Philadelphia and New York: Lippincott, 1948.

———. New York City at War; Emergency Services. [New York: Casey Press Corporation, 1943].

Mann, Arthur. La Guardia. 2 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1959-1965.

———. “When La Guardia Took Over.” New York Times Magazine (2 January 1966): 22-23+.

Manners, William. Patience and Fortitude: Fiorello La Guardia: A Biography. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976.

Moses, Robert. La Guardia; A Salute and a Memoir. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957.

Rodman, Bella, and Philip Sterling. Fiorello La Guardia. New York: Hill and Wang, 1962.

Tugwell, Rexford Guy. Art of Politics as Practiced by Three Great Americans: Franklin Delano Rosevelt, Luis Munoz Marin, and Fiorello Guardia. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1958.

Weston, Paul B. A Hammer in the City. Evanston, Ill.: Regency Books, 1962.

Zinn, Howard. La Guardia in Congress. 1959. Reprint, New York: Norton, 1969.