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Arthur M. Mann
Known for clear, lively writing on American history, this author explored reform politics, immigration, and the rise of Fiorello La Guardia. His work helped make complex political history feel human and readable.
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The Boer in Peace and War
by Arthur M. Mann
About the author
Arthur Mann was an American historian and biographer born in Brooklyn in 1922. He graduated summa cum laude from Brooklyn College in 1944, then earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Harvard University.
He taught at MIT and Smith College before joining the University of Chicago, where he became Preston and Sterling Morton Professor of American History and later emeritus professor. Brooklyn College describes him as a leading scholar of American reform politics, and his papers there reflect a long engagement with late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century urban, social, and political history.
His best-known books include Yankee Reformers in the Urban Age, La Guardia: A Fighter Against His Times, 1882-1933, La Guardia Comes to Power: 1933, Immigrants in American Life, and The One and the Many: Reflections on the American Identity. He died in 1993, remembered as both a careful historian and a gifted teacher.