Charles Evans Hughes and the dawning of modern America /
"In the first full-life biographical study of Charles Evan Hughes in over seventy years, Joanne Reitano provides a fresh new assessment of Hughes's distinguished career of public service during the first half of the twentieth century-including his time as Governor of New York (1906-1910),...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lawrence :
University Press of Kansas,
[2025].
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| Summary: | "In the first full-life biographical study of Charles Evan Hughes in over seventy years, Joanne Reitano provides a fresh new assessment of Hughes's distinguished career of public service during the first half of the twentieth century-including his time as Governor of New York (1906-1910), Associate Justice and presidential candidate (1910-1916), Secretary of State (1921-1925), and finally as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (1930-1941). A household name in his own time, Hughes challenged bossism and industrialism in New York politics, championed internationalism after World War I, brokered the world's first arms limitation agreement as Wilson's Secretary of State, and helped modernize the interstate commerce clause, substantive due process, and civil liberties from the Supreme Court bench. Reitano unpacks and embraces the seemingly paradoxical nature of Hughes's political and legal career and ideology, arguing that he was neither radical nor reactionary, but a structural reformer and a practical idealist throughout his career"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 406 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780700638864 0700638865 |