Fighting Bob La Follette : the righteous reformer / Nancy C. Unger.
Material type:
- 9780870204265 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion), 1855-1925
- United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography
- Progressivism (United States politics)
- Legislators -- United States -- Biography
- Governors -- Wisconsin -- Biography
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1933
- Wisconsin -- Politics and government -- 1848-1950
- 973.8092 B 22
- E 664 U57 2008
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Biblioteca Juan Bosch | Biblioteca Juan Bosch | Ciencias Sociales | Automatización y Procesos Técnicos (1er. Piso) | E 664 U57 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00000127422 |
Originally published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2000.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-370) and index.
Beginnings : oh, my idolized father -- Civil wars : my name is La Follette -- The university years : training for the duties of citizenship -- Belle Case La Follette : woman's victory, woman's tragedy -- La Follette and the law : everything is not enough -- Congressman La Follette : so good a fellow even his enemies like him -- Citizen La Follette : forced into the fight -- Governor La Follette and the Wisconsin idea : Wisconsin is a happier and better state to live in -- Senator La Follette : the bogey-man of the Senate -- The burdens of a great name : you have set an almost unattainable goal for us -- No longer the lonely man of the Senate : the coming of a new order of things -- Incident in philadelphia : La Follette's political suicide -- No surrender : one hardly knows whether to pity La Follette or admire his bravery -- World war I : a little group of willful men -- Resurrection : time and events are bringing things your way at last -- Final battles : I want to die--with my boots on -- Epilogue : a challenge to youth in America down all the future years.
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