Table of Contents

  INTRODUCTION       

 1. Preparation for Politics, 1882-1910     
 2. Rise to Power, 1910-1928       
 3. Governor and Presidential Candidate, 1929-1933      
 4. Rise of the New Deal, 1933-1936       
 5. The Roosevelt Presence, 1933-1936       
 6. Time of Troubles, 1937-1938       
 7. A Third Term and the Road to War, 1938-1941        
 8. War Leader, Part 1, 1941-1943       
 9. War Leader, Part 2, 1944-1945       
10. Reputation and Legacies       

     CHRONOLOGY         
     NOTES AND REFERENCES       
     BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY      
     INDEX      


 

About the Author

Patrick J. Maney is Professor and Chair of the History Department, University of South Carolina and the author of "Young Bob" La Follette: A Biography of Robert M. La Follette Jr., 1895-1953 (1978).

Reviews

"Maney brings cool judgment to bear on the best loved, most hated, most influential, and most enigmatic personality of modern America. . . . A model, compact biography."--Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., "Political Science Quarterly