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Mann, Arthur was born on January 3, 1922 in Brooklyn. Son of Karl and Mary (Koch) Finkelman.
(from a review Wilson came into office riding a wave of pr...)
from a review Wilson came into office riding a wave of progressive sentiment that had been unsatisfied by the lackluster William Howard Taft. Since the GOP split between the Taft and Theodore Roosevelt wings, Wilson won the election of 1912. His new administration was the Democrats first opportunity to run the executive branch in nearly 20 years. Wilson's initial domestic accomplishments were impressive in some respects. He and his allies in Congress passed the first real attempt at centralized banking (the Federal Reserve Board) since antebellum times and Wilson continued TR's path towards labor rights. Unfortunately, his administration continued to erode rights for African-Americans, barring them from employment all the way down to the level of local post master. His moralistic ideals spilled into foreignaffairs when events in Mexico overwhelmed all other concerns along the Mexican-US border. Here in 1911, Taft had bungled US policy badly and Wilson managed to involve the US in the Mexican revolution in a regrettable and meddlesome way that damaged US-Mexican relations for many years.
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Mann, Arthur was born on January 3, 1922 in Brooklyn. Son of Karl and Mary (Koch) Finkelman.
Bachelor summa cum laude, Brooklyn College, 1944. Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1947. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1952.
Tutor, Brooklyn College, 1946. From instructor to assistant professor Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1948-1955. From assistant professor to professor Smith College, 1955-1966.
Professor American history University Chicago, 1966-1993, Preston and Sterling Morton professor American history emeritus and faculty fellow div. social science, 1990-1993. Visiting professor Columbia University, University Massachusetts, Williams College, University Michigan, University Wyoming, Harvard University, Salzburg (Austria) Seminar American Studies.
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Author: Yankee Reformers in the Urban Age, 1954, Growth and Achievement, Temple Israel, 1854-1954, 1954, La Guardia, A Fighter Against His Times, 1882-1933, 1959, The Progressive Era, 1963, review edition, 1975, La Guardia Comes to Power, 1933, 1965, Immigrants in American Life, 1968, review edition, 1974, (with Harris and Warner) History and the Role of the City in American Life, 1972, The One and the Many: Reflections on the American Identity, 1979. Editor: series The University of Chicago Press Documents in American History. Advisory editor American History, University Chicago Press.
Editorial consultant: Social Service Review.
United States Department State lecturer, Venezuela, 1970, United States Information Agency lecturer, Fiji, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, 1974, Portugal, Germany, Yugoslavia, Romania, 1976, Hong Kong, Japan, 1979. Served with Army of the United States, 1943-1946. Member American History Association, Organization American Historians, Society of America Historians.
Married Sylvia Blut, November 6, 1943. Children: Carol Ruth, Emily Betsy.