Alben Barkley : A Life in Politics /
Born to poor tenant farmers in a log cabin in Graves County, Kentucky, Alben Barkley (1877-1956) rose to achieve a political stature in the US equalled by few of his contemporaries. James K. Libbey provides a full-length biography of this larger-than-life personality as Barkley transitioned from loc...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Kentucky :
The University Press of Kentucky,
[2016]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Child of the Jackson Purchase
- Clinton and college
- Barkley's reconciliation with his roots
- From courthouse to congress
- Congressman Barkley and the New Freedom
- The reformer in time of war
- The congressman in war and peace
- "Normalcy" and the tale of two elections
- Senator Barkley from Coolidge to Depression
- Senator Barkley from Depression to the announcement of a New Deal
- The assistant majority leader and the New Deal
- The majority leader in time of peace
- The majority leader from neutrality to war
- The senator in a time of troubles and triumphs
- The iron man becomes a veep
- The iron man keeps his mettle.