Hubert Humphrey: The Conscience Of The Country - Hardcover
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9760300222397
ISBN
9780300222395

Hubert Humphrey: The Conscience Of The Country

$35.00
Author
Offner, Arnold A.

One of the great liberal politicians of the twentieth century, rediscovered in an important, definitive biography Hubert Humphrey (1911ā€“1978) 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 wellā€ ā€˜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 nearā€ ā€˜victory in the 1968 presidential election, one of the angriest and most divisive in the countryā€™s history. Historian Arnold A. Offner has explored vast troves of archival records to recapture Humphreyā€™s life, giving us previously unknown details of the vice presidentā€™s fractious relationship with Lyndon Johnson, showing how Johnson colluded with Richard Nixon to deny Humphrey the presidency, and describing the most neglected aspect of Humphreyā€™s career: his major legislative achievements after returning to the Senate in 1970. This definitive biography rediscovers one of Americaā€™s great political figures.

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