20th Century Congress
by Kefauver, Estes
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- Hardcover
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Book in very good condition and dust jacket in good condition. Jacket has small tears at top of front and a crease approximately 3" long, also some small chips on bottom on front (see picture). Clean text. Price not clipped ($3.00). Protected by Brodart book jacket cover.
Ernest Lindley was well-known during his Washington, DC years for his radio and television appearances on public affairs programs. He covered FDR in New York and moved to Washington to cover him when he was elected President. He joined the Washington Post as a reporter and syndicated columnist. Lindley and his wife were close personal friends with Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt He authored five books included the first biography of FDR. In 1961 he joined the Kennedy Administration as the special assistant to U. S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk and was a member of the State Department's Policy Planning Council. He stayed with State until 1969.
Kefauver was from Tennessee and a member of the Democratic Party, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1939 to 1949 and in the Senate from 1949 until his death in 1963.
After leading a much-publicized investigation into organized crime in the early 1950s, he twice sought his party's nomination for President of the United States. In 1956, he was selected by the Democratic National Convention to be the running mate of presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson. He still held his U.S. Senate seat after the Stevenson–Kefauver ticket lost to the Eisenhower–Nixon ticket.
Kefauver was unique in Tennessee politics in his outspoken liberal views, a stand which established a permanent bloc of opposition to him in the state. Kefauver's success—despite his liberal views—was predicated largely on his support by the Nashville Tennessean, a consistently liberal newspaper. His constituency included many prominent citizens, whose views were considerably less liberal than his, but who admired him for his integrity.
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- DRM Political Books (US)
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- Title
- 20th Century Congress
- Author
- Kefauver, Estes
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Essential Books Duell, Sloan and Pearce
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1947
- Pages
- 236
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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