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...just the man with whom Tammany could challenge waspish, ebullient little Mayor Fiorello La Guardia in 1941. In a sense it was a personal feud. The Little Flower had heckled Democratic...
...MAKING OF AN INSURGENT (222 pp.)-Fiorello H. La Guardia-Lippin-cott...
...25th New York County Assembly District stepped out of his office and bawled: "Who wants to run for Congress?" It really didn't matter: the candidate didn't have a chance. A chunky little (5 ft. 2 in.) lawyer piped up: "I do." Someone said: "Hey, La Guardia, what's your first name? . . . Fiorello? Oh, hell, let's get someone whose name we can spell...
That was in 1914. La Guardia ran and lost in a congressional district where no Republican had won since the party's founding. But he came back again to win the seat twice, to be Congressman from another district five times, and later to become New York City's mayor for a record-breaking twelve years. His posthumous autobiography, The Making of an Insurgent, plainly reflects the weariness he must have felt as he and Writer M. R. Werner knocked it together last year during the final months of La Guardia's fatal illness (cancer). It covers...
Jimmy Walker, a cynic in such matters, once quizzically asked La Guardia: "Fiorello, what are you in politics for, for love?" The Making of an Insurgent suggests that...