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Albert Gore, Sr. - A Political Life (Hardcover)
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Albert Gore, Sr. - A Political Life (Hardcover)
Series: Politics and Culture in Modern America
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In chronicling the life and career of Albert Gore, Sr., historian
Anthony J. Badger seeks not just to explore the successes and
failures of an important political figure who spent more than three
decades in the national eye-and whose son would become Vice
President of the United States-but also to explain the dramatic
changes in the South that led to national political realignment.
Born on a small farm in the hills of Tennessee, Gore served in
Congress from 1938 to 1970, first in the House of Representatives
and then in the Senate. During that time, the United States became
a global superpower and the South a two party desegregated region.
Gore, whom Badger describes as a policy-oriented liberal, saw the
federal government as the answer to the South's problems. He held a
resilient faith, according to Badger, in the federal government to
regulate wages and prices in World War II, to further social
welfare through the New Deal and the Great Society, and to promote
economic growth and transform the infrastructure of the South. Gore
worked to make Tennessee the "atomic capital" of the nation and to
protect the Tennessee Valley Authority, while at the same time
cosponsoring legislation to create the national highway system. He
was more cautious in his approach to civil rights; though bolder
than his moderate Southern peers, he struggled to adjust to the
shifting political ground of the 1960s. His career was defined by
his relationship with Lyndon Johnson, whose Vietnam policies Gore
bitterly opposed. The injection of Christian perspectives into the
state's politics ultimately distanced Gore's worldview from that of
his constituents. Altogether, Gore's political rise and fall,
Badger argues, illuminates the significance of race, religion, and
class in the creation of the modern South.
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