Al Smith and His America
(Library of American Biography)
by Oscar Handlin

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• Release date: October 30, 1987
• Publisher: Northeastern University Press
• Series: Library of American Biography
• ISBN: 9781555530211 (1555530214)
• Characters: Al Smith
• Author: Oscar Handlin
• Format: paperback, 224 pages
• Genres: biography
• Language: english

About The Book

The legendary image of America as a land of opportunity was challenged in 1928 by Al Smith’s race for the presidency. Could the governor from New York, a Catholic from the Lower East Side, really become president? His candidacy began a dark episode in American history as Al Smith found himself a victim of the very society that, ironically, gave him his greatest opportunity.

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This sympathetic account of Smith’s political career demonstrates that a changing society in the decades after World War I propelled Americans toward isolationism and a reassertion of comfortable verities about religion and ethnicity. Oscar Handlin notes that Americans were fundamentalists in 1928, and their anti-Catholicism affected the outcome of the presidential election. But religion was only one symptom of the American anxiety that prejudiced attitudes toward the city, toward foreigners, toward the League of Nations and Prohibition. Disillusioned and betrayed by an unsuccessful peace, Americans searched for external causes on which to lay blame, and Al Smith seemed to epitomize the alien forces that were undermining the nation.

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