Hubert H Humphrey

Author : Charles Lloyd Garrettson
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1412825598

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Hubert H. Humphrey by Charles Lloyd Garrettson Pdf

Calls for greater morality in government and among politicians are a fixture of American political culture. Although there is no lack of opinion on what political morality means and how it might be achieved, few commentators have considered these questions in practical terms. In this major contemporary analysis of the life and work of Hubert H. Humphrey, Charles L. Garrettson examines Humphrey's career to provide an explanatory approach to the application of religious or moral principles to political practice. He does so without reducing this theme to sentiment or cynicism. Humphrey's life and career constituted a striking and often conflicted amalgam of personal idealism and political realism. His ideals came literally from Main Street, America and on them he rode straight to Washington, D.C. to fulfill an exalted and selfless dream of public service. His years there, however, coincided with one of the most significant, tumultuous, and challenging times in American history: the 1960s-a tune not noted for its emphasis on Main Street values. Garrettson perceives a profound irony at the center of Humphrey's life; the very source of strength that brought him his greatest triumph and joy-his role in the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and thus the vice presidency-also brought him his greatest failure and grief--the presidential campaign of 1968 and his vulnerability on the issue of the Vietnam War. Combining biography, history, and theoretical analysis, "Hubert H. Humphrey and the Politics of Joy "is built around essential defining questions: is morality principally a matter of belief or action; or is it instead a consistent, though admittedly tenuous, balancing of both. In testing Humphrey's life and career against these questions, Garrettson provides a necessary exercise in social science and a profound reflection on what it means to be moral in the political world.

Author : Arnold A. Offner
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300241013

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Hubert Humphrey by Arnold A. Offner Pdf

One 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.

Author : Hubert Horatio Humphrey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Legislators
ISBN : MINN:31951D00223776P

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Wit & Wisdom of Hubert H. Humphrey by Hubert Horatio Humphrey Pdf

Author : Minnesota Historical Society. Public Affairs Center
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Reference
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039518233

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Hubert H. Humphrey Papers by Minnesota Historical Society. Public Affairs Center Pdf

Author : Hubert Horatio Humphrey,Sheldon D. Engelmayer,Robert J. Wagman
Publisher : Mitchell Beazley
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015015364436

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Hubert Humphrey by Hubert Horatio Humphrey,Sheldon D. Engelmayer,Robert J. Wagman Pdf

Selections from the late senator's speeches and writings, arranged chronologically and topically, are connected by biographical passages.

Author : Hubert Horatio Humphrey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015037278747

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The Civil Rights Rhetoric of Hubert H. Humphrey, 1948-1964 by Hubert Horatio Humphrey Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive examination of Hubert Humphrey's civil rights rhetoric. The editor showcases Humphrey's civil rights speeches from 1948 to 1964, most of which have never been published. Because it was common for Humphrey to use speeches containing similar strains of thought in a given month or year, the speeches in this text will provide a sound representation of all of Huphrey's speeches during this period. The study begins with Humphrey's first national plea to the 1948 Democratic National Convention. Next, readers are taken through Humphrey's entrance into the U.S. Senate, and his asking for national morality and national action. Humphrey's remarks exemplify his development of national arguments in support of the 1964 Civil Rights Amendment and his ideas for the direction of this movement. Comments by Humphrey and others are included in order to provide additional framework for the study of his rhetoric. This thoroughly edited and carefully selected set of essays will enlighten readers to one of the greatest accomplishments of Humphrey's public life--his contribution to civil rights. This book will appeal to students and scholars of rhetoric, speech communication, political science and history.

Author : Arnold A. Offner
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300222395

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Hubert Humphrey by Arnold A. Offner Pdf

One 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.

Author : Hubert Horatio Humphrey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015002669771

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The Quotable Hubert H. Humphrey by Hubert Horatio Humphrey Pdf

Author : Dan Cohen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015002669938

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Undefeated by Dan Cohen Pdf

With more than 300 photographs and numerous quotes by and about Humphrey, this is a fascinating glimpse at the modern political scene.

Author : Biographiq
Publisher : Biographiq
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02
Category : Legislators
ISBN : 1599861593

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Hubert H. Humphrey - the Happy Warrior by Biographiq Pdf

Hubert H. Humphrey - The Happy Warrior is a biography of Hubert H. Humphrey, a former United States Senator and Vice President from Minnesota. Humphrey was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1949, where he served for nearly 16 years before becoming Lyndon B. Johnson's Presidential running mate in 1964 and eventually becoming the Vice President of the United States. In 1968, Humphrey lost one of the closest and most hard fought presidential races in American history to Richard Nixon. Hubert H. Humphrey - The Happy Warrior is highly recommended for those interested in the life of Hubert H. Humphrey and his lasting impact on American politics.

Author : Carl Solberg
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0873514734

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Hubert Humphrey by Carl Solberg Pdf

The most authoritative biography of the consummate liberal politician of the second half of the twentieth century.

Author : Paul Westman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1978-01-01
Category : Legislators
ISBN : 0875181805

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Hubert H. Humphrey, the Politics of Joy by Paul Westman Pdf

Traces the life of the senator from Minnesota who served as Vice President under Lyndon B. Johnson.

Author : Walter Mondale
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1439171688

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The Good Fight by Walter Mondale Pdf

Former vice president Walter Mondale makes a passionate, timely argument for American liberalism in this revealing and momentous political memoir. For more than five decades in public life, Walter Mondale has played a leading role in America’s movement for social change—in civil rights, environmentalism, consumer protection, and women’s rights—and helped to forge the modern Democratic Party. In The Good Fight, Mondale traces his evolution from a young Minnesota attorney general, whose mentor was Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, into a U.S. senator himself. He was instrumental in pushing President Johnson’s Great Society legislation through Congress and battled for housing equality, against poverty and discrimination, and for more oversight of the FBI and CIA. Mondale’s years as a senator spanned the national turmoil of the Nixon administration; its ultimate self-destruction in the Watergate scandal would change the course of his own political fortunes. Chosen as running mate for Jimmy Carter’s successful 1976 campaign, Mondale served as vice president for four years. With an office in the White House, he invented the modern vice presidency; his inside look at the Carter administration will fascinate students of American history as he recalls how he and Carter confronted the energy crisis, the Iran hostage crisis, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and other crucial events, many of which reverberate to the present day. Carter’s loss to Ronald Reagan in the 1980 election set the stage for Mondale’s own campaign against Reagan in 1984, when he ran with Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman on a major party ticket; this progressive decision would forever change the dynamic of presidential elections. With the 1992 election of President Clinton, Mondale was named ambassador to Japan. His intriguing memoir ends with his frank assessment of the Bush-Cheney administration and the first two years of the presidency of Barack Obama. Just as indispensably, he charts the evolution of Democratic liberalism from John F. Kennedy to Clinton to Obama while spelling out the principles required to restore the United States as a model of progressive government. The Good Fight is replete with Mondale’s accounts of the many American political heavyweights he encountered as either an ally or as an opponent, including JFK, Johnson, Humphrey, Nixon, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, Senator Gary Hart, Reagan, Clinton, and many others. Eloquent and engaging, The Good Fight illuminates Mondale’s philosophies on opportunity, governmental accountability, decency in politics, and constitutional democracy, while chronicling the evolution of a man and the country in which he is lucky enough to live.

Author : Lawrence O'Donnell
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780399563157

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Playing with Fire by Lawrence O'Donnell Pdf

From the host of MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, an important and enthralling new account of the presidential election that changed everything, the race that created American politics as we know it today The 1968 U.S. Presidential election was the young Lawrence O’Donnell’s political awakening, and in the decades since it has remained one of his abiding fascinations. For years he has deployed one of America’s shrewdest political minds to understanding its dynamics, not just because it is fascinating in itself, but because in it is contained the essence of what makes America different, and how we got to where we are now. Playing With Fire represents O’Donnell’s master class in American electioneering, embedded in the epic human drama of a system, and a country, coming apart at the seams in real time. Nothing went according to the script. LBJ was confident he'd dispatch with Nixon, the GOP frontrunner; Johnson's greatest fear and real nemesis was RFK. But Kennedy and his team, despite their loathing of the president, weren't prepared to challenge their own party’s incumbent. Then, out of nowhere, Eugene McCarthy shocked everyone with his disloyalty and threw his hat in the ring to run against the president and the Vietnam War. A revolution seemed to be taking place, and LBJ, humiliated and bitter, began to look mortal. Then RFK leapt in, LBJ dropped out, and all hell broke loose. Two assassinations and a week of bloody riots in Chicago around the Democratic Convention later, and the old Democratic Party was a smoldering ruin, and, in the last triumph of old machine politics, Hubert Humphrey stood alone in the wreckage. Suddenly Nixon was the frontrunner, having masterfully maintained a smooth façade behind which he feverishly held his party’s right and left wings in the fold, through a succession of ruthless maneuvers to see off George Romney, Nelson Rockefeller, Ronald Reagan, and the great outside threat to his new Southern Strategy, the arch-segregationist George Wallace. But then, amazingly, Humphrey began to close, and so, in late October, Nixon pulled off one of the greatest dirty tricks in American political history, an act that may well meet the statutory definition of treason. The tone was set for Watergate and all else that was to follow, all the way through to today. Playing With Fire is the perfect holiday gift!

Author : Hubert H. Humphrey
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807160343

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The Political Philosophy of the New Deal by Hubert H. Humphrey Pdf

Brought up on Wilsonian democracy and populist ideals, a young Hubert Humphrey witnessed the near-failure of the American political system during the Great Depression and its revival under Franklin D. Roosevelt. In The Political Philosophy of the New Deal, Humphrey responds to the changing political landscape of his early adulthood and offers a broad-ranging analysis of the New Deal and its place in the American traditions of individualism and social responsibility. First published in 1970, Humphrey's book makes the case that the New Deal, by emphasizing stability for all citizens, situated itself firmly within the traditions of American democracy. His cogent assessment of Roosevelt's policies offers insights still applicable in current-day discourse about the financial and social sectors within the United States. This paperback edition includes a new foreword by Robert Mann, who explains the enduring importance of Humphrey's work and makes a strong case for the relevance of Humphrey's ideas in today's political climate.