The Unheralded Triumph: City Government in America, 1870-1900 by Jon C. Teaford

The Unheralded Triumph: City Government in America, 1870-1900

Jon C. Teaford

386 pages first pub 1984 (editions)

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Originally published in 1984. In 1888 the British observer James Bryce declared "the government of cities" to be "the one conspicuous failure of the United States." During the following two decades, urban reformers would repeat Bryce's words with ...

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