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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Ambar, Saladin M., author.     Subjects     Cuomo, Mario M., 1932-2015.     Democratic Party (U.S.) -- Biography.     Governors -- New York (State) -- Biography.     Liberals -- United States -- Biography.     New York (State) -- Politics and government -- 1951-     Browse Catalog     by author:      Ambar, Saladin M., author.       by title:      American Cicero : Ma...         MARC Display

American Cicero : Mario Cuomo and the defense of American Liberalism / Saladin Ambar. by Ambar, Saladin M., author. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, c2018. Subjects Cuomo, Mario M., 1932-2015.   Democratic Party (U.S.) -- Biography.   Governors -- New York (State) -- Biography.   Liberals -- United States -- Biography.   New York (State) -- Politics and government -- 1951- ISBN:  9780190658946 (hardcover : alkaline paper) : 0190658940 (hardcover : alkaline paper) Description:  xvi, 202 pages ; 25 cm Contents:  Prologue: Tarmac -- Part I. Politics: Queens -- Part II. Poetry: San Francisco and South Bend -- Part III. Prose: Albany -- Part IV. Party: Washington -- Epilogue: Tramonti. Requests:  0 Summary:  Mario Cuomo is in many respects one of the most significant liberal politicians in the postwar era: a three-term governor of one the nation's largest states and an eloquent defender of the Democratic Party's progressive legacy during a period of conservative ascendancy. Yet in other respects he never lived up to his supporters' hopes. His gubernatorial record was spotty, and when he had the chance to seek the presidency, he equivocated, Hamlet-like, before deciding against it and crushing the hopes of the party's progressive wing. His mixed record has made it very difficult for scholars and biographers to clarify his legacy. Was he a symbol of liberalism's long decline in twentieth-century American politics, or was he a prophet in the wilderness, heralding the rise of a new progressivism? Saladin Ambar's 'American Cicero' weaves elements of biography, political history, and political theory into a novel interpretation of Cuomo's life and legacy. 0Tracing his life from the streets of an immigrant neighborhood in Queens to his final years in Albany, Ambar argues that Cuomo kept the spent embers of liberalism alive in an era when it seemed that conservatism was approaching full-spectrum dominance-even within the Democratic Party itself. In a series of important speeches over the course of the 1980s, Cuomo drew upon his singular oratorical powers to offer a progressive vision that revived and expanded upon the policymaking legacy of the New Deal and Great Society. At a time when pessimism about presidential electoral prospects reigned in the Democratic Party, his voice-buttressed by a string of electoral victories in New York-provided succor to the liberal faithful. Unsurprisingly, party professionals saw him as the next great Democratic presidential candidate. Yet when he had the chance to run-in 1988 and 1992-he decided not to. His political career ended in 1994, when he was voted out of office in New York in a nationwide Republican wave.0.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 974.7043 Cuomo Am Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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