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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822291703321

Autore

La Follette Robert M (Robert Marion), <1855-1925.>

Titolo

La Follette's autobiography : a personal narrative of political experiences / / Robert M. La Follette ; foreword by Matthew Rothschild

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, Wisconsin : , : University of Wisconsin Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-299-29713-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (370 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RothschildMatthew

Disciplina

324.973/912

Soggetti

Governors - Wisconsin

Legislators - United States

Presidents - United States - Election - 1912

United States Politics and government 1865-1933

Wisconsin Politics and government 1848-1950

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Foreword, Matthew Rothschild ""; ""Introduction ""; ""Chapter 1. Political Beginnings""; ""Chapter 2. In the House of Representatives""; ""Chapter 3. The Reed Congress and the New National Issues""; ""Chapter 4. The Crucial Period of My Public Life""; ""Chapter 5. Six Years' Struggle with the Wisconsin Bosses""; ""Chapter 6. My First Term as Governor and the Problems I Had to Meet""; ""Chapter 7. How We Passed the Railroad Taxation Laws""; ""Chapter 8. Progressive Government Produces Business Prosperity: What Was Accomplished in Wisconsin  ""

""Chapter 9. Alone in the Senate: Experiences with Roosevelt: Railroad Rate Legislation """"Chapter 10. Reinforcements: A National Progressive Movement""; ""Chapter 11. Why I Became a Candidate for the Presidency - Taft's Unavailability - A Complete History of Roosevelt's Course after His Return from Africa - Formation of the Organized Progressive Movement - Pressure for a Real Progressive Candidate""; ""Chapter 12. The True History of the Campaign of 1912 for the Republication Nomination to the Presidency ""

""Chapter 13. Why I Continued as a Candidate - Roosevent never a



Progressive - His Record""""Appendix: Speech of Robert M. La Follette Delivered at the Annual Banquet of the Periodical Publishers' Association Philadelphia, February 2, 1912""; ""Index""