Milwaukee Publishers, LLC - Frank Zeidler - A Liberal in City Government

Like Us On Facebook:

Frank Zeidler on Writing
A LIBERAL IN CITY GOVERNMENT

It took me quite a while to write it. I didn’t have any income, so I had to live on what savings I had. That was in 1962.

Much of the book was written at Brisbane Hall, which was at 536 W. Juneau Avenue, which was the office of the Socialist Party. They had a library of books and a wonderful collection of pamphlets, many from the time of the Great Depression. I was out of office, and I didn’t have a job, but I did have a very large collection of notes, and the pamphlets from the office, and I worked from those notes and newspaper clippings and other sources to develop the book. And a lot of it reflects my memory of the events at the time.

It occurred to me that in the 1950s Milwaukee had made some very great strides. The city more than doubled its size during my administration, we started the freeway system, we began the public museum, we expanded the library system, we started a completely new waterworks.

One of the reasons I wrote the book was that my mind was full of these activities, and I thought it would be interesting just to record them for myself, if not for anybody else, so that they would stay in my mind as to how things developed. I was glad that I reported it, that I wrote it all down, as a record of some historical value.

MILWAUKEE PUBLISHERS, LLC
414.731.1615
mail@milwaukeepublishers.com