Book

Blue-Collar Conservatism

Frank Rizzo's Philadelphia and Populist Politics

Timothy Lombardo

2018

University of Pennsylvania Press

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Book Excerpt

Frank Rizzo and the Making of Modern American Politics

How Rizzo's blue-collar populism helped him survive his tumultuous first term as mayor.

by Timothy Lombardo via Tropics of Meta on October 16, 2018
Explainer

Making Philly a Blue-Collar City

Sports, politics, and civic identity in modern Philadelphia.

by Timothy Lombardo via Sport in American History on September 6, 2018
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Q&A

Law & Order, Philadelphia Style

The city that just elected a civil rights lawyer as D.A. is the same city presided over for years by "Mayor Cop" Frank Rizzo.

by Sara Mayeux, Timothy Lombardo on November 17, 2017

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