LEADER 03399nam 22004695 450 001 9910813384503321 005 20191022022751.0 010 $a0-300-24101-1 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300241013 035 $a(CKB)4100000005601358 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5484501 035 $a(DE-B1597)536051 035 $a(OCoLC)1047729258 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300241013 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000005601358 100 $a20191022d2018 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aHubert Humphrey $eThe Conscience of the Country /$fArnold A. Offner 210 1$aNew Haven, CT : $cYale University Press, $d[2018] 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (525 pages) 311 $a0-300-22239-4 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tPreface -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tPrologue -- $t1. A New Star Is Born -- $t2. The People's Mayor -- $t3. The Next Senator from Minnesota -- $t4. Lonely, Bitter, and Broke in the Senate -- $t5. Confrontation and Cooperation -- $t6. Prominence and Courtship -- $t7. The Price of Leadership -- $t8. Liberal without Apology -- $t9. Candidate in Orbit, 1958-1960 -- $t10. The Insider as Outsider -- $t11. Tragedy and Triumph -- $t12. The Best Man in America -- $t13. LBJ versus HHH: The Great Society and Vietnam -- $t14. Humphrey's Vietnam Wars -- $t15. Northwest's Passage -- $t16. Last Man In -- $t17. The Siege of Chicago -- $t18. Battling the Torrents-and Johnson -- $t19. Resurrection and Defeat -- $t20. A Time for Everything -- $tEpilogue: The Conscience of the Country -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aOne of the great liberal politicians of the twentieth century, rediscovered in an important, definitive biography Hubert Humphrey (1911-1978) was one of the great liberal leaders of postwar American politics, yet because he never made it to the Oval Office he has been largely overlooked by biographers. His career encompassed three well?'known high points: the civil rights speech at the 1948 Democratic Convention that risked his political future; his shepherding of the 1964 Civil Rights Act through the Senate; and his near?'victory in the 1968 presidential election, one of the angriest and most divisive in the country's history. Historian Arnold A. Offner has explored vast troves of archival records to recapture Humphrey's life, giving us previously unknown details of the vice president's fractious relationship with Lyndon Johnson, showing how Johnson colluded with Richard Nixon to deny Humphrey the presidency, and describing the most neglected aspect of Humphrey's career: his major legislative achievements after returning to the Senate in 1970. This definitive biography rediscovers one of America's great political figures. 606 $aElections$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical$2bisacsh 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1945-1989 607 $aMinneapolis (Minn.)$vBiography 615 0$aElections$xHistory. 615 7$aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical. 676 $a973.920924 700 $aOffner$b Arnold A., $0681498 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813384503321 996 $aHubert Humphrey$94000559 997 $aUNINA