To Boss or To Manage?
Resources

Books

Chambers, John Whiteclay. The Tyranny of Change: America in the Progresive Era, 1890-1920. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2000.

Diner, Steven J. A Very Different Age: Americans of the Progressive Era. New York: Hill and Wang, 1998.

Dingilian, Arlene. "The Political Education of a Saloonkeeper." The Bulletin of the Cincinnati Historical Society vol. 24 (1968): 313-21.

Gould, Lewis L. America in the Progressive Era, 1890-1914. New York: Longman, 2001.

Kennedy, David M., ed. Progressivism: The Critical Issues. Boston: Little, Brown and Co, 1971. [See especially the chapter by Samuel B. Hays, "The Politics of Reform in Municipal Government in the Progressive Era."]

Link, Arthur Stanley. Progressivism. Arlington Heights, IL: Harlan Davidson, Inc, 1983.

Oates, Stephen B. Portraits of America. Vol. 1. 3rd ed. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987. [See especially the portrait of Jane Addams.]

Plunkitt, George Washington. "Honest Graft and Dishonest Graft." Writing New York: A Literary Anthology. New York: Library of America, 1998, 347-49.

Rightor, Chester E. City Manager in Dayton. New York: Macmillan, 1919.

Royko, Mike. Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago. New York: Dutton, 1971.

Schneider, Dorothy. American Women in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920. New York: Facts on File, 1993.

Sealander, Judith. Grand Plans: Business Progressivism and Social Change in Ohio's Miami Valley, 1890-1929. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 1988. [See especially chapter 4.]

Seasongood, Murray. "The Triumph of City Government." 1938 pamphlet, available in the Cincinnati Historical Society Library.

Silberstein, Iola. Cincinnati Then and Now. Cincinnati: The League of Women Voters of the Cincinnati Area, 1982.

Taft, Charles P. City Management: The Cincinnati Experiment. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1933.

Tucker, L.L, ed. "The Life of the 'Boss of Cincinnati.'" Bulletin of the Cincinnati Historical Society. Vol. 26 (1968): 137-57.

Videos and films

The Progressive Movement. Bala Cynwyd, PA: Schlessinger Video Productions, 1996. [35 min.] Explores the roots of Progressivism, including the city bosses and political reform. Available at University of Cincinnati Library.

The Progressives. Del Mar, CA: CRM/McGraw-Hill Films, 198?. [26 min.] Traces the progressive movement from its beginning in 1890 through 1920. Available at Wright State, Miami, Ursuline libraries

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