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An Irish Passion for Justice: An Interview with Robert Polner

An Irish Passion for Justice: An Interview with Robert Polner

By Robert W. Snyder

In the city of New York from the 1930s to the 1990s, Irish attorney Paul O’Dwyer was a fierce and enduring presence in courtrooms, on picket lines, and in contests for elected office. He was forever the advocate of the downtrodden and marginalized, fighting not only for Irish Catholics in Northern Ireland but for workers, radicals, Jews, and African Americans and against the Vietnam War.

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Stephanie Azzarone, Heaven on the Hudson

(Podcast) Stephanie Azzarone, Heaven on the Hudson

Interviewed by Robert W. Snyder

On the west side of Manhattan, Riverside Park winds between the banks of the Hudson River and the elegant housing of Riverside Drive. In her new book Heaven on the Hudson: Mansions, Monuments, and Marvels of Riverside Park (Fordham UP, 2022), Stephanie Azzarone seeks to lift the park and its surroundings from the shadows of more famous places, like Fifth Avenue, Central Park, and Central Park West.

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New Ways to Understand  Robert Moses: An Interview with Katie Uva and Kara Murphy Schlichting

New Ways to Understand Robert Moses: An Interview with Katie Uva and Kara Murphy Schlichting

By Robert W. Snyder

If you teach courses on New York City’s history, or just have a passing interest in its past, you are sure to come across Robert A. Caro’s biography The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. Published in 1974, it remains influential and informs an exhibit at the New-York Historical Society, echoes into David Hare’s new play Straight Line Crazy, and appears conspicuously in Zoom conversations on the bookshelves of politicians and journalists.

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