hominidmedia: people: victor berger
media introduction:
image credit: "Berger, Victor L. Honorable" Digital ID#: hec. 16979. Reproduction ID#: LC-DIG-hec-16979. Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540. [loc.gov]
Frank. P. Zeidler. "Constitutional Minutes; Victor Berger; 103." PBS Wisconsin, American Archive of Public Broadcasting Boston: WGBH. Hosted by [americanarchive.org]
Sixty second spot from 1987 put together by some combination of PBS Wisconsin, the University of Wisconsin Television, the WI Educational Communications Board, the State Historical Society, and state bar. The series examines a specific part of the constitution presumably for the classroom. Zeidler was Milwaukee's last sewer socialist mayor (1948-60). Of the previous two: Daniel Hoan (1916-40) has a bridge named after him and Emil Seidel (1910-12) left this position to join Eugene Debs' presidential ticket. These two are nationally notable as firsts. Seidel was the first socialist mayor of a big American city. Hoan had the longest uninterrupted socialist administration in American history.
Berger, too, is one of these firsts. The (*retyped) Zeidler transcript:
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standard narrative:
H. Russell Austin. The Wisconsin Story: The Building of a Vanguard State Milwaukee: The Milwaukee Journal, 1964. 248, 293, 297, 305, 596. (first published, 1948).
Austin on Berger:
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Louis Hartz. The Liberal Tradition in America. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1955. 235-237, 247.
Hartz on Berger:
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Samuel Eliot Morison. The Oxford History of The American People. New York: Oxford University Press, 1965. (Second printing). 873-875.
Morison on Berger:
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Oscar Handlin. America: A History. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968. 797-798.
Handlin on Berger:
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Calvin D. Linton (ed). The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America. Nashville and New York: Thomas Nelson Inc., 1975. (Second Printing) 247, 249.
Linton on Berger:
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Keith Ian Polakoff, Norman Rosenberg, Grania Bolton, Ronald Story, Jordan Schwarz. Generations of Americans: A History of the United States. New York, New York: St. Martin's Press, Inc., 1976. 579-581.
Polakoff et al. on Berger:
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Howard Zinn. A Peoples History Of The United States. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005. (First Published: 1980). 353-354.
Zinn on Berger:
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William B. Hesseltine. "Berger, Victor L." The World Book Encyclopedia USA: World Book Inc., 1988.
Hesseltine on Berger:
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Paul Johnson. A History of the American People Great Britain: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997. 599-600.
Johnson on Berger:
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James A. Henretta, David Brody, Susan Ware, Marilynn S. Johnson. America's History Volume 2: Since 1865 Boston: Bedford, 2000. 651, 726.
Robert H. Zieger. America's Great War: World War I and the American Experience. Lanham, Boulder, New York and Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2000. 197.
Zieger on Berger:
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Eric Foner. Give Me Liberty! An American History. WW. Norton: Second Seagull Ed., 2009. 652, 714. (First Published: 2005)
primary sources:
Victor Berger archive, ten articles, hosted by [marxists.org] in three periods:
No Impossibilism 1898-1914: Social Democratic Party, Socialist Party of America, Sewer Socialism, 1910 election, first socialist seated in US House of Representatives. Milwaukee. "American Socialism" and "No Impossibilism for Us!"
Espionage 1914-1921: Espionage Act, World War One, Berger's Austro-Hungarian background and anti-interventionism. Barring from the US House.
The Future 1921-1923: Two views of the future after Berger was readmitted to the house and reelected.
The Party and the Future (1921):
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Ku-Klux-Klan (1923):
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image credit: "Berger, Victor L. Honorable" Digital ID#: hec. 16979. Reproduction ID#: LC-DIG-hec-16979. Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540. [loc.gov]
Frank. P. Zeidler. "Constitutional Minutes; Victor Berger; 103." PBS Wisconsin, American Archive of Public Broadcasting Boston: WGBH. Hosted by [americanarchive.org]
Sixty second spot from 1987 put together by some combination of PBS Wisconsin, the University of Wisconsin Television, the WI Educational Communications Board, the State Historical Society, and state bar. The series examines a specific part of the constitution presumably for the classroom. Zeidler was Milwaukee's last sewer socialist mayor (1948-60). Of the previous two: Daniel Hoan (1916-40) has a bridge named after him and Emil Seidel (1910-12) left this position to join Eugene Debs' presidential ticket. These two are nationally notable as firsts. Seidel was the first socialist mayor of a big American city. Hoan had the longest uninterrupted socialist administration in American history.
Berger, too, is one of these firsts. The (*retyped) Zeidler transcript:
[load text]
standard narrative:
H. Russell Austin. The Wisconsin Story: The Building of a Vanguard State Milwaukee: The Milwaukee Journal, 1964. 248, 293, 297, 305, 596. (first published, 1948).
Austin on Berger:
[load text]
Louis Hartz. The Liberal Tradition in America. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1955. 235-237, 247.
Hartz on Berger:
[load text]
Samuel Eliot Morison. The Oxford History of The American People. New York: Oxford University Press, 1965. (Second printing). 873-875.
Morison on Berger:
[load text]
Oscar Handlin. America: A History. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968. 797-798.
Handlin on Berger:
[load text]
Calvin D. Linton (ed). The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America. Nashville and New York: Thomas Nelson Inc., 1975. (Second Printing) 247, 249.
Linton on Berger:
[load text]
Keith Ian Polakoff, Norman Rosenberg, Grania Bolton, Ronald Story, Jordan Schwarz. Generations of Americans: A History of the United States. New York, New York: St. Martin's Press, Inc., 1976. 579-581.
Polakoff et al. on Berger:
[load text]
Howard Zinn. A Peoples History Of The United States. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005. (First Published: 1980). 353-354.
Zinn on Berger:
[load text]
William B. Hesseltine. "Berger, Victor L." The World Book Encyclopedia USA: World Book Inc., 1988.
Hesseltine on Berger:
[load text]
Paul Johnson. A History of the American People Great Britain: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997. 599-600.
Johnson on Berger:
[load text]
James A. Henretta, David Brody, Susan Ware, Marilynn S. Johnson. America's History Volume 2: Since 1865 Boston: Bedford, 2000. 651, 726.
Robert H. Zieger. America's Great War: World War I and the American Experience. Lanham, Boulder, New York and Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2000. 197.
Zieger on Berger:
[load text]
Eric Foner. Give Me Liberty! An American History. WW. Norton: Second Seagull Ed., 2009. 652, 714. (First Published: 2005)
primary sources:
Victor Berger archive, ten articles, hosted by [marxists.org] in three periods:
No Impossibilism 1898-1914: Social Democratic Party, Socialist Party of America, Sewer Socialism, 1910 election, first socialist seated in US House of Representatives. Milwaukee. "American Socialism" and "No Impossibilism for Us!"
Espionage 1914-1921: Espionage Act, World War One, Berger's Austro-Hungarian background and anti-interventionism. Barring from the US House.
The Future 1921-1923: Two views of the future after Berger was readmitted to the house and reelected.
The Party and the Future (1921):
[load text]
Ku-Klux-Klan (1923):
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