American Cicero: Mario Cuomo and the Defense of American Liberalism
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| Rating | : | 4.21 (839 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0190658940 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 216 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Saladin Ambar is Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Senior Scholar at the Center on the American Governor at the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University. He is also the author of Malcolm X at Oxford Union and How Governors Built the American Presidency.
He is also the author of Malcolm X at Oxford Union and How Governors Built the American Presidency.. About the AuthorSaladin Ambar is Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Senior Scholar at the Center on the American Governor at the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University
Whatever clinched his decision not to run, Cuomo's impassioned advocacy for liberalism nevertheless had a measurable impact on twenty-first century Democratic progressives, notably Barack Obama. Yet he never ran for president. American Cicero promises to not only re-establish Cuomo's central place in modern American liberalism, but also force readers to reassess liberalism's fortunes following the close of the New Deal era.. Ambar's research took him to Italy in search of lingering questions, chiefly why Cuomo never ran for president. As liberalism's most powerful and eloquent defender of the New Deal's legacy, he found a wide and receptive audience well beyond his home state of New York. The three-term governor of New York was also a famously eloquent defender of the Democratic Party's progressive legacy even as conservatives gained political power across the nation. Yet his decision not to run for president arguably hastened the end of his political career: he was voted out of gubernatorial office in 1994 in a nationwide Republican wave. He learned of concerns about an assassination attempt - Cuomo's mother had admonished him, "remember what happened to