Desk 88 : : Eight Progressive Senators who Changed America
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Prologue: The origins of Desk 88 -- Hugo Black: finding light in the shadows -- Thoughts from Desk 88 -- Theodore Francis Green: a traitor to his class -- Thoughts from Desk 88 -- Glen Taylor: the singing cowboy from Kooskia -- Thoughts from Desk 88 -- Herbert H. Lehman: pursuing a different family business -- Thoughts from Desk 88 -- Al Gore, Sr.: leading from the South -- Thoughts from Desk 88 -- William Proxmire: a workhorse and a showhorse -- Thoughts from Desk 88 -- Robert F. Kennedy: a voice for those without a voice -- Thoughts from Desk 88 -- George McGovern: feeding the hungry -- Thoughts from Desk 88 -- Further thoughts from Desk 88-about 2020 and beyond -- Epilogue: Carving a place in history.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Year Published: 2019
Description: 354 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780374138219
0374138214
SUBJECTS
Brown, Sherrod, -- 1952- -- Political and social views.
United States. -- Senate -- Biography.
United States. -- Politics and government.
Legislators -- United States -- Biography.
Progressivism (United States politics) -- History.