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Political Hell-Raiser - The Life and Times of Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana (Hardcover)
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Political Hell-Raiser - The Life and Times of Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana (Hardcover)
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Burton K. Wheeler (1882-1975) may have been the most powerful
politician Montana ever produced, and he was one of the most
influential - and controversial - members of the United States
Senate during three of the most eventful decades in American
history. A New Deal Democrat and lifelong opponent of concentrated
power - whether economic, military, or executive - he consistently
acted with a righteous personal and political independence that has
all but disappeared from the public sphere. Political Hell-Raiser
is the first book to tell the full story of Wheeler, a genuine
maverick whose successes and failures were woven into the political
fabric of twentieth-century America. Wheeler came of political age
amid antiwar and labor unrest in Butte, Montana, during World War
I. As a crusading United States attorney, he battled Montana's
powerful economic interests, championed farmers and miners, and won
election to the U.S. Senate in 1922. There he made his name as one
of the ""Montana scandalmongers,"" uncovering corruption in the
Harding and Coolidge administrations. Drawing on extensive research
and new archival sources, Marc C. Johnson follows Wheeler from his
early backing of Franklin D. Roosevelt and ardent support of the
New Deal to his forceful opposition to Roosevelt's plan to expand
the Supreme Court and, in a move widely viewed as political
suicide, his emergence as the most prominent spokesman against U.S.
involvement in World War II right up to three days before Pearl
Harbor. Johnson provides the most thorough telling of Wheeler's
entire career, including all its accomplishments and
contradictions, as well as the political storms that the senator
both encouraged and endured. The book convincingly establishes the
place and importance of this principled hell-raiser in American
political history.
General
Imprint: |
University of Oklahoma Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
March 2019 |
Authors: |
Richard C. Rattenbury
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Foreword by: |
Larry Mahan
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Photographers: |
Ed Muno
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Dimensions: |
235 x 156 x 37mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
504 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8061-4085-8 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-8061-4085-2 |
Barcode: |
9780806140858 |
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