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• W2994391946 abstract "Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles over Schools, Unions, Race, and Democracy By Richard D. Kahlenberg Columbia University Press, 2007, $29.95; 552 pages. Madman or Visionary? reads the publicity material that accompanies this biography of Albert Shanker. The dust jacket describes the paradigmatic moment in Woody Allen's 1973 movie, Sleeper, in which future Rip Van Winkle awakens to learn that civilization was destroyed when a man by the name of Albert Shanker got hold of nuclear warhead. Five years earlier, Shanker, leader of the New York City teachers union, shook the city with series of strikes to defend the rights of teachers who had been dismissed from Brooklyn schools. The schools were part of an experiment in control, an approach to school reform then favored by liberals and black activists. The community in this case was black, and those governing the schools under the experimental program demanded black teachers and black principals. There were few in the New York City public schools at the time. Many teachers and principals were Jews, and members of that religious group, as schoolteachers, social workers, shopkeepers, and small landlords, were seen by black militants as the exploiters of African Americans. These Jewish occupational specialties were hardly at the heights of the economy, or the power structure, but from the perspective of the black ghetto, were the power structure. Among whites with whom poor blacks came into contact, the book notes one observer saying, only the policeman was not Jewish. Community control over city schools pitted blacks against Jews. When, during one of these disruptive strikes, an anti-Semitic leaflet appeared, Shanker did not hesitate to reproduce it in the hundreds of thousands to paint his black opponents as Jew-haters. He was denounced for exacerbating group tensions in difficult time. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the early 1960s, Shanker had played leading role in organizing 50,000 of New York City's public school teachers. He was one of group of tough union leaders who in defiance of state law led strikes by public employees, disrupted the lives of millions, and went to jail as result. Mike Quill, the leader of the transit workers union, shut down the subways, to the outrage of millions of commuters, and went to jail as result. Who remembers Quill? But everyone remembers Al Shanker, who once said in response to question about the rights of schoolchildren, they don't pay the dues in this union. Despite the similarities and the similar headaches gave Mayor John Lindsay, Shanker was very different from Mike Quill. He was drawn from radically different milieu, the Jewish working class, and those origins foreshadowed his transformation. Alongside his defense of teachers' rights, there was always larger vision, which made it possible for him to escape from the execration that liberals heaped on him in the 1960s. Shanker graduated from fierce union leader to education statesman and leader in the world of education reform. Indeed, he does warrant biography; no trade-union leader of the last 40 years, in the age after John L. Lewis, Sidney Hillman, Walter Reuther, David Dubinsky, and other shapers of American unionism, is so worthy of one. Shanker came from world that no longer exists, one in which bright young people with political interests were divided between Socialists and Communists. The conflicts between the two--in school arguments, in college organizations, in trade unions, in local politics--shaped generation that was defined by two dominant traits, an unbending anti-Communism and defense of unions and worker's rights. One can only understand Shanker, and the paradoxes he presents to contemporary liberalism, from the point of view of those origins. Shanker attended New York's Stuyvesant High School, an examination school for the gifted, where he excelled in debate, and the University of Illinois, where he joined the Young People's Socialist League and showed his organizational talents by drawing unexpectedly large audiences for Norman Thomas, the perennial Socialist candidate for president. …" @default.
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