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Carlson, Samuel A. The Saga of a City: A New Concept of Government
Cleveland E. George Lindstrom Linotype Co. 1935 First Edition Cloth Fair + No Jacket Signed by Author
117 pp. Backstrip partly loose from textblock but rear endpaper still attached. Hinges split. Some fading to cover. Author's signature on front endpaper. Scribbles on frontispiece portrait of Samuel Carlson, no other markings. Arthur Wellington Anderson, historian of Jamestown, N.Y., contributed the introductory chapter and a glowing tribute to Carlson. A mayor's wide-ranging essay on good municipal government, using Jamestown, N.Y., as an example. Carlson also touches on state and national issues. He recounts his efforts to bring non-partisanship to Jamestown in an era when the Depression was putting great stesses on local government. He recounts one incident in which he deputized hundreds of citizens to help patrol the streets and maintain public calm during a strike. Carlson's reform efforts included establishment of a municipal electric utility. He championed government consolidation, saying town and village governments should be merged into regional bodies, and county governments eliminated. He laments that all state and local governments in America had a combined budget of $9 billion in 1932, which he viewed as a great waste of tax money.
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36.00 USD
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