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The wayward liberal : a political biography of Donald Richberg / by Thomas E. Vadney

Author
Vadney, Thomas E., 1939-
Published
Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [1970]
Copyright Date
©1970
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1 online resource (236 pages)
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Contents
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; I. The Making of a Progressive; II. The Anxious Reformer; III. Labor Lawyer; IV. Empire-Building; V. Consolidation; VI. The Door to Preferment; VII. The President's Counselor I; VIII. The President's Counselor II; IX. On the Sidelines; X. Reaping the Whirlwind; Bibliographical Note; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.
Summary
In the first political biography of Donald Richberg, Thomas E. Vadney traces the continuities and discontinuities in the American reform tradition from the days of the Progressives to the years after the New Deal. Richberg's strong advocacy of the earlier liberalism contrasted with his equally strong rejection of post-New Deal liberalism. At the beginning of the New Deal, Richberg supported Roosevelt's National Recovery Administration program, but as time went on he was unable to accept the growth of big government and the welfare state that later evolved from it. Many of the old liberals firml.
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9780813164731 (electronic bk.)
0813164737 (electronic bk.)
0813155061
9780813155067
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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