Hubert Humphrey : the conscience of the country /
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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven, Connecticut :
Yale University Press,
[2018]
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 490 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0300222394 9780300222395 |