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This book challenges the popular view that business interests have always run Dallas and offers a historically accurate picture of the city’s development.

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part One: 1880-1920
  • 1. Dallas's Turn-of-the-Century Elite: Businessmen and Clubwomen
  • 2. Radical Alternatives: Populism and Socialism in Dallas
  • 3. Fairness Revisited: Labor's Bid for Respectability
  • Part Two: 1920-1940
  • 4. Reform, Reaction, and Downtown Rivalries as Threats to Growth
  • 5. The Origins of Single-Option Government
  • 6. Dallas's War on Labor, 1935-1940
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/10/1996
      ISBN13: 9780292731042, 978-0292731042
      ISBN10: 0292731043

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book challenges the popular view that business interests have always run Dallas and offers a historically accurate picture of the city’s development.

      Table of Contents
      • Acknowledgments
      • Introduction
      • Part One: 1880-1920
      • 1. Dallas's Turn-of-the-Century Elite: Businessmen and Clubwomen
      • 2. Radical Alternatives: Populism and Socialism in Dallas
      • 3. Fairness Revisited: Labor's Bid for Respectability
      • Part Two: 1920-1940
      • 4. Reform, Reaction, and Downtown Rivalries as Threats to Growth
      • 5. The Origins of Single-Option Government
      • 6. Dallas's War on Labor, 1935-1940
      • Epilogue
      • Notes
      • Selected Bibliography
      • Index

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