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Paul B. Beers Pennsylvania Politics Today & Yesterday Paperback 1980 Book Vg
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- Subject Area
- History, Political Science
- Custom Bundle
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- Features
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- Country/Region of Manufacture
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- Subject
- United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), History & Theory, American Government / State, United States / General
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- 9780271002385
- Publication Name
- Pennsylvania Politics Today and Yesterday : the Tolerable Accommodation
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania STATE University Press
- Publication Year
- 1980
- Series
- Keystone Bks.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Item Weight
- 30.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 488 Pages
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A sort of rough justice characterized the Pennsylvania political scene, this book argues, if we define justice in Learned Hand's words as "the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society." According to the Prologue: "Reform always has worked better in Pennsylvania as an issue-based effort, rather than a broad political movement." According to the Epilogue: "Although 1978 was a year of intense competition, in the end--in revisions so typical of Pennsylvania--both the old and the new politics were refuted, while the comfortable middle-road was chosen." Beers explains the Keystone State's rejection of ideological extremes by reviewing its traditional virtues: tolerance of diversity, independence in thought and action, and patience under adversity. "Pennsylvania is the vest-pocket edition of the world," said Governor Shafer in 1967, "the ethnographic mosaic," said historian Phil Klein in 1976; "kind and mild, sort of non-Puritanical," said novelist John Updilke in 1977. The book's lively narrative begins with Boss Matt Quay forcing his way into the U.S. Senate in 1900, ends with Governor Dick Thornburgh balancing the taxpayers' demand for budge-cutting against his party leaders' itch for patronage. Between 1900 and 1979 the story is told of the rogues (Penrose, the Vares, and Cianfrani), the reformers (Pinchot, Leader, and Duff), and the greater number whose real achievements were dimmed by implications of corruption (Earle, Fine, and Shapp). On balance the author tends toward Henry Adams's assessment of the Pennsylvanian: "In practical matters it was the steadiest of all American types; perhaps the most efficient; certainly the safest."
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Pennsylvania STATE University Press
ISBN-10
0271002387
ISBN-13
9780271002385
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Product Key Features
Publication Name
Pennsylvania Politics Today and Yesterday : the Tolerable Accommodation
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), History & Theory, American Government / State, United States / General
Publication Year
1980
Series
Keystone Bks.
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
History, Political Science
Number of Pages
488 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Height
1 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
30.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
79-065826
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Copyright Date
1980
Illustrated
Yes
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