After the Vote: Feminist Politics in La Guardia's New York

by Elisabeth Israels Perry

Soon after his inauguration in 1934, New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia began appointing women into his administration. By the end of his three terms in office, he had installed almost a hundred as lawyers in his legal department, but also as board and commission members and as secretaries, deputy commissioners, and judges. No previous mayor had done anything comparable. Aware they were breaking new ground for women in American politics, the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199341842
• ISBN13: 9780199341849
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.4"