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Pennsylvania Politics Today and Yesterday : The Tolerable...by Paul Beers HC, VG
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- Book Title
- Pennsylvania Politics Today and Yesterday : The Tolerable Accommo
- ISBN
- 9780271002385
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Pennsylvania STATE University Press
ISBN-10
0271002387
ISBN-13
9780271002385
eBay Product ID (ePID)
68221
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
488 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Pennsylvania Politics Today and Yesterday : the Tolerable Accommodation
Subject
United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), History & Theory, American Government / State, United States / General
Publication Year
1980
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, History
Series
Keystone Bks.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
30.2 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
79-065826
Illustrated
Yes
Synopsis
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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