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Amy B. Bridges is a Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. A scholar of city politics, Bridges is the author of A City in the Republic, Antebellum New York and Origins of Machine Politics (Cambridge, 1984) and Morning Glories, Municipal Reform in the Southwest (Princeton, 1997), which won two awards for best book published in 1997, Best Book in Urban ...
Amy Bridges Page 4 Review of James J. Connolly, The Triumph of Ethnic Progressivism: Urban Political Culture in Boston 1900-1925. Journal of Interdisciplinary History XXXI:1 (Summer 2000), pp. 135-7. Review of Melvin G. Holli, The American Mayor: the Best and Worst Big-City Leaders. American Historical Review, Vol. 105 #3, (June 2000) p. 948
Amy Bridges, Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego, begins her excellent comparative study of municipal reform in the large cities of the Southwest with a quotation from New York City machine politician George Washington Plunkitt, who wrote off reformers as "'morning glories' who 'looked lovely in the mornin ...
Aug 15, 1999 · Amy Bridges. Princeton University Press, Aug 15, 1999 - Political Science - 264 pages. George Washington Plunkitt once dismissed municipal reformers as "morning glories" who "looked lovely in the mornin' and withered up in a short time, while the regular machines went on flourishin' forever, like fine old oaks."
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May 5, 2011 · Amy Bridges, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., SSB 389, San Diego, CA 92093 Email: [email protected] Amy Bridges is researching the founding constitutions of the western states; her account of six of these appears in “Managing the Periphery in the Gilded Age” Studies in American Political Development 22 (Spring 2008), 32-58.
Amy Bridges is a television writer whose work has appeared on Discovery Health, TLC, and HGTV. She is the recipient of the San Francisco Writers Conference First Prize Award for Fiction. Her play, “Women of the Holocaust,” was published by the Kennedy Center in their Volume I anthology of Best Student One-Acts.
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