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Prof. Clarence Taylor and others – “Robert F. Wagner, Jr., Where Are You?” A Panel Discussing New York’s Forgotten, Postwar, Three-Term Mayor

Marilyn Weber

THE GOTHAM CENTER FOR NEW YORK CITY HISTORY

presents

Robert F. Wagner, Jr., Where Are You?
A Panel Discussing New York’s Forgotten, Postwar, Three-Term Mayor 

Thursday, April 21st, 2016, 6:30 pm
Room C198

Historian Mason Williams hosts this panel discussion, exploring the pivotal, transformative, and neglected mayoralty of Robert F. Wagner, Jr.

Richard Flanagan will speak about his new book, which explores how the postwar reform insurgency created Manhattan’s “plebiscitary” Democratic Party under Wagner’s reign. He will be joined by Michael Woodsworth, Jeffrey Kroessler, and Clarence Taylor, who shall address different facets of Wagner’s policy legacy, such as crime, housing, race, and poverty.