Chapter 1 Getting There Chapter 2 Freshman Chapter 3 Making His Mark Chapter 4 Shifting Gears Chapter 5 1968: To Chicago Chapter 6 1968: Campaigning With Hubert Horatio Hunphrey Chapter 7 DNC Chapter 8 The Broader View Chapter 9 New Populism: Laying the Groundwork Chapter 10 Preparations Chapter 11 A Populist Runs for President Chapter 12 The First Americans Chapter 13 New Populist Chapter 14 Shedding His Skin Chapter 15 Up From the Basement Chapter 16 The Last Hurrah
Richard Lowitt is well known for his books on twentieth-century American history, including studies on the New Deal and the West, and biographies of Sens. George W. Norris and Bronson Cutting. He is editor of the volumes Politics in the Post-War American West and One-Third of a Nation: Lorena Hickhok Reports on the Great Depression. He is retired from the University of Oklahoma and has taught at Iowa State University and the University of Kentucky. He has been a visiting professor at Yale, Brown, Duke, and Emory Universities. Currently he serves as Regents Professor at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma.
Once again, in this quintessentially American story, Richard Lowitt
shows us his sensitive historian's feel for the impact of man upon
events and events upon man. His subject: the meteoric national
career of Oklahoma's U.S. Senator Fred Harris, who enthralled
official Washington with his brilliance and independence of mind
before risking it all in two spirited but under-financed races for
the presidency. The populist ideals to which Fred Harris gave such
eloquent expression are rooted as deeply in our culture as Andrew
Jackson and have special relevance as America seeks to fulfill its
destiny in the 21st century.
*James C. Wright, Jr., former Speaker of the United States House of
Representatives*
Richard Lowitt—through exhaustive research in primary sources—has
tendered a compelling story about a politician, liberal in outlook
and policies, who was willing to brave constituency wrath on behalf
of his dreams for all Americans. This book will be of utmost
importance to historians and scholars investigating U.S. history
during the 1960s and 1970s.
*Ben Procter, Texas Christian University*
Richard Lowitt's Fred Harris provides an interesting portrait of a
man whose importance in American politics in the 1960s and 1970s
has heretofore been greatly underappreciated.
*Robert S. McElvaine, Millsaps College*
Richard Lowitt has written a very readable political biography.
Drawing on Harris's papers housed in the Carl Albert Center at the
University of Oklahoma, other archival sources, and the public
record, Lowitt provides a very objective account of Harris's
career. He eschewed interviewing Harris, wanting to "come to my own
conclusions." That he has, and here they are.
*Booknotes*
...This is a very worthy book about one of Oklahoma's favorite sons
and one of the more interesting politicians of recent American
politics. Leaders and citizens alike would greatly benefit from
reading this book and following the fine example of Fred
Harris.
*Journal of Southern History*
Richard Lowitt's highly readable biography of Fred Harris offers a
new perspective on the politics of the 1960s and makes clear that
the causes Senator Harris championed—on behalf of the rural poor,
of Native Americans, and of others who are disadvantaged—are as
salient today as they were then.
*William E. Leuchtenburg, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, author of The Supreme Court Reborn*
As Richard Lowitt makes clear, Fred Harris is important because,
despite his failure to persuade the American people to adopt his
populist views, the issues he raised remain pertinent thirty years
later. [Lowitt's] work consistently reflects thorough research, an
eye for the telling anecdote, and graceful prose, and this work is
no exception. Overall, the book is highly readable and a good
reminder that the United States was not always as conservative as
it appears to be now.
*New Mexico Historical Review*
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