Young Bob: A Biography of Robert M. La Follette, Jr.

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United States senator “Young Bob” La Follette entered politics as a young reformer within the shadow of his legendary father, “Fighting Bob” La Follette. He made his own mark as a key architect of Roosevelt’s New Deal and as a champion of labor rights and civil liberties. But in 1946 he used to be impulsively unseated by Joseph McCarthy, whose upward push to Cold War notoriety foreshadowed La Follette’s despair and suicide in 1953. This new edition updates the one full scale biography of La Follette,Jr., the primary to milk his voluminous number of personal papers. Patrick J. Maney makes clear that Young Bob’s story is as relevant these days as it used to be when he died. His life stands as dramatic evidence of how one of the vital respected politicians of his time bridged the political spectrum and used to be admired by both liberals like FDR and Harry Truman and conservatives like Robert Taft and Richard Nixon.


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