Hubert Humphrey : the conscience of the country
Title
:
Hubert Humphrey : the conscience of the country
Author
:
Offner, Arnold A., author.
ISBN
:
9780300222395
Physical Description
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xv, 490 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 25 cm.
Contents
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A new star is born -- The people's mayor -- The next senator from Minnesota -- Lonely, bitter, and broke in the Senate -- Confrontation and cooperation -- Prominence and courtship -- The price of leadership -- Liberal without apology -- Candidate in orbit, 1958-1960 -- The insider as outsider -- Tragedy and triumph -- The best man in America -- LBJ versus HHH: the great society and Vietnam -- Humphrey's Vietnam wars -- Northwest's passage -- Last man in -- The siege of Chicago -- Battling the torrents--and Johnson -- Resurrection and defeat -- A time for everything -- The conscience of the country.
Personal Subject
:
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978.
Subject Term
:
Elections -- United States -- History.
Legislators -- United States -- Biography.
Geographic Term
:
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
Genre
:
Biographies
Summary
:
Hubert Humphrey was one of the great liberal leaders of postwar American politics, yet because he never made it to the Oval Office he has been largely overlooked by biographers. His career encompassed three well-known high points: the civil rights speech at the 1948 Democratic Convention that risked his political future; his shepherding of the 1964 Civil Rights Act through the Senate; and his near-victory in the 1968 presidential election, one of the angriest and most divisive in the country's history.
| Library | Call Number | Status |
|---|
| Hardwood Creek Library (Forest Lake) | 921 HUMPHREY | Nonfiction Collection |
| Park Grove Library (Cottage Grove) | 921 HUMPHREY | Nonfiction Collection |
| R.H. Stafford Library (Woodbury) | 921 HUMPHREY | Nonfiction Collection |