Abstract
AbstractThis is the first of a series of articles upon some famous municipal executives. Surely thew personalities and methods deserve as close study as the charter provisions under which they operate. Later some city managers may be added (see NATIONAL MUNICIPAL REVIEW for December for a story on City Manager Hopkins of Cleveland).John F. Hylan, a poor boy, born and reared in a country village, was snatched from obscurity to be elected mayor of the nation's largest city and re‐elected by an enormous plurality. He turned his most vocal and vitriolic enemies into political assets and last a third term because Tammany, fearing perhaps that he was growing too powerful, abandoned him. What were the human factors attending his rise and fall?
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