1st Edition
Profiles in Character Hubris and Heroism in the U.S. Senate, 1789-1990
By Joseph Martin Hernon
Copyright 1997
320 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
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A take-off of Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, which argues that the best-known US senators don't deserve their renown as much as some lesser-known ones. Over the course of ten biographical chapters, this book tells the story of 16 men's lives in the Senate in relation to each other.
Preface, Photographs follow page 118, Introduction, I. The Patrician Age (1789-1820), 1. "Last of the Romans": Rufus King vs. James Monroe (1789-1820), II. The National Forum (1820-1870), 2. "Samson and the Temple of Slavery": Thomas Hart Benton vs. John C. Calhoun (1820-1850), 3. Lincoln's Prime Minister: William Pitt Fessenden vs. Charles Sumner (1850-1865), 4. "Worthy of Plutarch": Fessenden vs. Sumner (1865-1870), III. The Rise and Fall of the Senate Oligarchy (1870-1940), 5. "Try Justice": George Frisbie Hoar vs. John Sherman (1870-1900), 6. The "Lamp of Experience" and "Bungalow Minds": Henry Cabot Lodge vs. Thomas J. Walsh (1900-1920), 7. "Senator-at-Large of the Whole American People": William E. Borah vs. George W. Norris (1920-1940), IV. The Imperial Presidency and the Supine Senate (1940-1990), 8. Shaping Pax Americana: Robert A. Taft vs. Arthur H. Vandenberg (1940-1950), 9. The "Politics of Joy" and "Uncle Strom's Cabin": Hubert H. Humphrey vs. Strom Thurmond (1950-1990), Epilogue: Virtue Misapplied: Modem Heroes in an Age of Hubris, Afterword, A Note on Sources, Notes, Index
Biography
Authored by Hernon, Joseph Martin
