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A carregar... Joe T. Robinson: Always a Loyal Democratpor Cecil Edward Weller
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. 3495. Joe T. Robinson Always a Loyal Democrat, by Cecil Edward Weller, Jr. (read Oct 29, 2001) This is a 1998 bio of the Democratic leader in the U.S. Senate from 1923 to 1937. He succeeded Jeff Davis in the Senate, which made me think of the superlative bio of that Senator (The Wild Ass of the Ozarks: Jeff Davis and the Social Bases of Southern Politics, by Raymond Arsenault) which I read with great appreciation on June 18, 1995. Unfortunately this book is not comparable, but is a workmanlike study well-researched and footnoted with an interesting bibliography. It is really a published thesis and while theses can be interesting I found this a disappointment. I have read a lot of senatorial biography and cannot give this one a high place in my ranking of such. ( ) sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
Senate majority leader Joseph Taylor Robinson was undoubtedly one of the most powerful U.S. senators of the early twentieth century. An important political figure in Arkansas from the time he was elected to the state legislature in 1895, Joe T., as he was popularly called became nationally prominent when he ascended to the Democratic leadership of the U.S. Senate in 1923. Robinson's career spanned momentous legislative debates in the chambers of the Senate, such as the League of Nations charter, the Teapot Dome Scandal, and FDR's plan to "pack" the Supreme Court. His run for the vice-presidency in 1928, the first Southerner on a major ticket after the Civil War, and his three terms as chairman of the Democratic National Convention, in 1920, 1928, and 1936, are all covered in this perceptive study. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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