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A Man for All Seasons - Monroe Sweetland and the Liberal Paradox (Paperback)
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The life of prominent Oregon political leader Monroe Sweetland
spans the spectrum of 20th-century America. Through seven decades,
Sweetland experienced the economic collapse of the Great
Depression, the unparalleled violence of a nation at war, the
divisiveness of Cold War politics, and the cultural and political
turmoil of the Vietnam War. Historian William G. Robbins
illuminates the wrenching transformation of American political
culture in A Man for All Seasons. Racial and economic inequalities
motivated much of Sweetland's civic life, including his lifelong
memberships in the American Civil Liberties Committee, the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Urban
League, the Japanese American Citizens League, and the Red Cross,
where Sweetland worked repatriating American prisoners of war after
Japan's surrender. Robbins' portrait is holistic, exploring
Sweetland's socialist beginnings, inconsistencies in his
politics-especially during the Cold War-and his regional legacy. He
was the most important person in the resurgence of the modern,
liberal Oregon Democratic Party from the late 1940s to the 1960s.
He joined the National Education Association in 1964 and became the
driving force behind the Bilingual Education Act of 1968 and the
fight for the age-18 vote, achieved in the ratification of the 26th
amendment in 1971. Monroe Sweetland was a nationally prominent
figure, whose fights bequeathed to modern America important
legislation that shaped its political landscape.
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