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Author : Tom H. Watkins
Publisher : Henry Holt
Page : 1010 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : New Deal, 1933-1939.
ISBN : 0805009175
Recounts the life of the longest-serving U.S. Interior Secretary, chronicling his role in the New Deal
Author : Harold LeClair Ickes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015001537508
The second volume of "The Secret Diary of Harold L. Ickes" carries his story of the New Deal from the 1936 election, where the first volume stopped, through the outbreak of war in Europe in September 1939. A third volume, covering the 1940 election and the period up to Pearl Harbor, will be published in the fall of 1954. - Publisher's note in Volume 2.
Author : Jeanne Nienaber Clarke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015037307348
By any measure, Harold Ickes was one of the towering figures of the New Deal. With remarkable energy and a genius for organization, he transformed a tradition-bound, much-maligned Department of the Interior into a progressive and highly respected organization. He was known for his sharp wit and brilliant intellect. He could be crusty, temperamental, and self-righteous. And he was just the kind of tenacious fighter FDR needed. In this political biography of the nation's most influential secretary of the interior, Jeanne Clarke examines Harold Ickes's tenure in the Roosevelt administration and his role as a powerful champion of New Deal policies. She offers an unprecedented examination of the internal conflicts that raged within Roosevelt's bureaucracy and provides new insights into the public career and private life of FDR's "liberal lightning rod." Ickes led the Interior Department for all of Roosevelt's thirteen years in the White House, a tenure longer than any Interior secretary before or since. Soon after his appointment as secretary in 1933, Ickes took on the added duties and political clout of public works administrator and oil administrator. As a popular public speaker, he was an important player in FDR's reelection campaigns. He often deflected criticism and attention away from the president by assuming the role of the administration's "hatchet man." In a variety of ways, Clarke concludes, Ickes helped to define the role of the modern political executive. Roosevelt's Warrior is also a revealing look at FDR himself. Clarke describes the president as a figure so genuinely attractive that he managed to keep even self-styled curmudgeons like Ickes orbiting around him. Tothis day, Clarke notes, FDR has the capacity to attract our attention and influence our political life. This study of his close friend and political partner Harold Ickes helps to explain why.
Author : Harold LeClair Ickes
Publisher : New York : Simon and Schuster
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : United States
ISBN : UCSC:32106006285321
The second volume of "The Secret Diary of Harold L. Ickes" carries his story of the New Deal from the 1936 election, where the first volume stopped, through the outbreak of war in Europe in September 1939. A third volume, covering the 1940 election and the period up to Pearl Harbor, will be published in the fall of 1954. - Publisher's note in Volume 2.
Author : T. H. Watkins
Publisher : Plunkett Lake Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Born in rural western Pennsylvania, Harold LeClair Ickes (1874-1952), son of a gambler, womanizer, drunk father and of a strictly reared Presbyterian mother, grew up desperately poor and desperately ambitious. He became a Chicago newsman during its gilded era, a key figure in the Progressive Party, and in FDR’s cabinet became America’s longest serving and most influential Interior Secretary. As Interior Secretary, he helped change the face of America, forging that department into the most powerful tool for the protection of our lands. He was also a major force in reshaping the character and quality of American society, often seeming to speak ex cathedra as the conscience of FDR’s administration. Opinionated, vigorously outspoken, as impassioned defending minorities as defending our wild places, Ickes, who happily styled himself “the Old Curmudgeon,” was arguably the most controversial and most beloved figure in the New Deal. When Ickes wrote his first column in the New Republic, the editors of the magazine introduced him on May 2, 1949 as “old enough to be called an Elder Statesman, but he is too salty for that label. He himself has cheerfully accepted the epithet of Curmudgeon, which likewise is insufficient to his case. A more accurate description would be that he is America’s most venerable progressive and one of the stoutest fighters, at any age, for justice and good government.” Righteous Pilgrim was a non-fiction National Book Award finalist in 1990, and received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography in 1991 and was a finalist for theNational Book Critics Circle Award. “an outstanding biography that is also a major work of social history spanning the first half of the 20th century... [Ickes was] a courageous public servant who in Righteous Pilgrim receives long overdue recognition.” — Herbert Mitgang, The New York Times “highly successful... Written in a delightful conversational style that disguises the impressive scholarly research that went into its preparation, this is an appreciative biography of a man who was so temperamental, thin-skinned and bluntly outspoken that he acknowledged these traits himself... This thoughtful, readable, and yet gripping book is so persuasive it may well force a more positive reassessment of the New Deal... Righteous Pilgrim is likely to be one of the most significant histories of the Progressive and New Deal reform impulse to appear in a decade.” — Howard R. Lamar,Washington Post “[an] elegant and exhaustive new biography of Ickes... Using primary sources (such as the diary Ickes religiously maintained through most of his life) with great sensitivity, [Watkins] provides an astonishingly intimate portrait of a public man... Watkins, editor of The Wilderness Society magazine Wilderness, is a wonderfully skillful writer... As Watkins powerfully demonstrates in this rewarding and illuminating work, Ickes had no shortage of ego — but his real fuel was conviction, burning at an octane hardly ever seen in Washington any more.” — Ronald Brownstein, Los Angeles Times “[an] engaging, monumental biography” — Publishers Weekly “Researched with amazing thoroughness and organized with a sure hand, this will undoubtedly prove to be the definitive work on Harold L. Ickes... Watkins portrays the currents of political maneuvering that swirled and eddied about Ickes with admirable clarity. A complex, fascinating, and convincing portrait.” — Kirkus Reviews “[a] worthy, well-written biography.“ — Clayton R. Koppes, Reviews in American History “Harold Ickes was one of the most interesting political figures of the first half of the twentieth century, and T. H. Watkins vividly sets forth both the complexities of his personality and personal life and the remarkable scope of his achievements.” — Frank Freidel “A superbly written story of the preeminent Progressive of this century. I couldn’t put it down.” — Stewart L. Udall “Righteous Pilgrim is one of those rare and wonderful biographies that are at once incisive portraiture and important social history.” — Wallace Stegner “Harold Ickes stomps across the pages of T. H. Watkins’s biography as one of the most arresting and essential figures of the American twentieth century.” — Frederick Turner “At last, a biography worthy of its extraordinary subject — vivid, impassioned, larger-than-life.” — Geoffrey C. Ward
Author : Harold L. Ickes
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:49015002018365
Author : Graham J. White,J. R. Maze
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015010351453
Very little has been written about Harold Ickes, one of the most important, complex, and colorful figures of the New Deal. By any standards his public career was remarkable. For thirteen turbulent years as Interior Secretary and as head of the Public Works Administration he was an uncommonly effective official and a widely acknowledged leader of liberal reform. As the foremost conservationist of his time, he saved millions of acres of land from decimation. He was matchless, too, as a fighter for just causes, and used his formidable talent for invective and his inexhaustible supply of moral fervor to flay representatives of prejudice and self-interest, whether in the cause of Negro rights or that of the common man against economic royalists. Despite a long and distinguished public life, Ickes is an enigma because of his inability to control his rage, to temper his public criticism, to respond objectively to situations. At the heart of his public and private life was constant moral outrage. This astute study by a historian and a psychologist probes the sources and consequences of Ickes' abnormal combativeness. White and Maze uncover the psychological imperatives and conscious ideals of Ickes' unknown private life that illuminate his public career. Some of the episodes include sadistic attacks by an elder brother; young Harold contemplating shooting his father; bitter and physical brawls with his imperious, wealthy, and previously married socialite wife, Anna Wilmarth Thompson of Chicago; and thoughts of suicide. Richard Polenberg calls this book "Superb [and] one of the most informative and interesting I have read on the New Deal. The story shows Ickes' weaknesses and flaws, but it puts them in context. The authors have not tried to explain everything Ickes ever did wholly in psychological terms, but the particular insights they bring to bear help present a rounded view of the man. The book is beautifully written."
Author : Harold LeClair Ickes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : United States
ISBN : LCCN:53009701
Author : Harold L. Ickes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:311902586
Author : Harold LeClair Ickes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : New Deal, 1933-1939
ISBN : UOM:49015000075334
Author : Mont Judd Harmon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89097613871
Author : Harold L. Ickes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1494082888
This is a new release of the original 1935 edition.
Author : Harold LeClair Ickes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015054065274
The second volume of "The Secret Diary of Harold L. Ickes" carries his story of the New Deal from the 1936 election, where the first volume stopped, through the outbreak of war in Europe in September 1939. A third volume, covering the 1940 election and the period up to Pearl Harbor, will be published in the fall of 1954. - Publisher's note in Volume 2.
Author : Linda J. Lear
Publisher : Dissertations-G
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UCAL:B4432505
Author : Arthur Maass
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 067442140X
