TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gerson,Simon W.
TI  - Pete: the story of Peter V. Cacchione, New York's first Communist councilman 
SN  - 0717804828 :
AV  - HX 84.C3 G47 1976
U1  - 335.43/092/4B 
PY  - 1976///
CY  - New York
PB  - International Publishers
KW  - Cacchione, Peter V.
KW  - Communists
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - Biography
KW  - New York (N.Y.)
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1898-1951
N1  - Includes index; 1. The argument -- 2. Boyhood in Sayre, Pa. -- 3. To New York — via Las Vegas --  4. Pete gets involved -- 5. Pete leads a bonus March contingent -- 6. Brooklyn captures Pete -- 7. Tammany "handles" relief -- 8. Seabury and Chile Acuna -- 9. Tin boxes and red herrings -- 10. Class struggle and goo-goos -- 11. The Fiorello Phenomenon -- 12. The Labor Party is born -- 13. Pete and PR -- 14. Pete's first try -- 15. The '37 mayoralty campaign -- 16. Election Day, 1937 -- 17. The '37 count -- 18. Towards the '39 campaign -- 19. Marcantonio: a man to study -- 20. War clouds and a write-in vote -- 21. From phoney war to anti-fascist war -- 22. Victory in '41 -- 23. Why Pete won: reflections -- 24. The eagle screams -- 25. Pete's first council session -- 26. Fighting fascism and anti-semitism -- 27. Battling baseball's Jim Crow -- 28. On Pete's style of work -- 29. Prophetic resolutions -- 30. Defender of Italian-Americans -- 31. Widening support -- 32. Manhattan names Ben Davis -- 33. Tackling the Eagle and O'Dwyer -- 34. Pete tops the list -- 35. Brooklyn to the rescue -- 36. The team of two -- 37. Pete wins a third term -- 38. Cold War years -- 39. Stuyvesant town: a close question -- 40. The going gets rougher -- 41. The cardinal and the council -- 42. The year of the long knives -- 43. PR: Cold War casualty -- 44. A day of civic mourning -- 45. The succession fight -- 46. Running for Pete's seat -- 47. An afterword
N2  - "A warm story with profound lessons in independent politics, proportional representation, and informative insights into the city politics of New York in the '30s and '40s. This story of Peter V. Cacchione has a special contemporary meaning. He cut the closed circuit of the old two party system, won elected office as a Communist and proved how well he and his Party could represent the people." -- from Goodreads and the back cover
UR  - https://archive.org/details/petestoryofpeter0000gers
ER  -