Fighting Bob La Follette : the righteous reformer /
Nancy C. Unger.
- 1st pbk. ed.
- Madison, WI : Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2008.
- xxi, 393 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Originally published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2000.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-370) and index.
Beginnings : oh, my idolized father -- Civil wars : my name is La Follette -- The university years : training for the duties of citizenship -- Belle Case La Follette : woman's victory, woman's tragedy -- La Follette and the law : everything is not enough -- Congressman La Follette : so good a fellow even his enemies like him -- Citizen La Follette : forced into the fight -- Governor La Follette and the Wisconsin idea : Wisconsin is a happier and better state to live in -- Senator La Follette : the bogey-man of the Senate -- The burdens of a great name : you have set an almost unattainable goal for us -- No longer the lonely man of the Senate : the coming of a new order of things -- Incident in philadelphia : La Follette's political suicide -- No surrender : one hardly knows whether to pity La Follette or admire his bravery -- World war I : a little group of willful men -- Resurrection : time and events are bringing things your way at last -- Final battles : I want to die--with my boots on -- Epilogue : a challenge to youth in America down all the future years.
9780870204265 (pbk. : alk. paper)
La Follette, Robert M. 1855-1925.
United States. Congress. Senate --Biography.
Progressivism (United States politics) Legislators--United States--Biography. Governors--Wisconsin--Biography.
United States--Politics and government--1865-1933. Wisconsin--Politics and government--1848-1950.