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Genre/Form: | Biographies Biography |
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Named Person: | Thomas James Walsh; Thomas James Walsh |
Material Type: | Biography, Government publication, State or province government publication |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
J Leonard Bates |
ISBN: | 0252024702 9780252024702 |
OCLC Number: | 183338231 |
Description: | xiv, 410 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | An Irish-American family -- The young intellectual -- the Dakota frontier -- Helena lawyer and Democrat -- Politics, law, and the copper kings -- Lawyer, Progressive, and public man -- The emergence of a leader -- To the Senate at last -- The tariff fight of 1913 -- The "new freedom" in Montana: hopes and illusions -- The "new freedom": a lawyer-senator at work -- The "new freedom" and Western land policy -- America and the "war-mad nations of Europe" -- Winning the West with Wilson, 1915-16 -- From peace to war -- Reelection in 1918 -- The League of Nations fight -- 1920 politics and issues of the Red Scare -- Walsh and Wheeler, 1922 -- Public lands, Native Americans, and campaigns for (honest) leasing -- The investigator -- New prospects for the Democrats -- Winning a third term in 1924 -- Abiding the Coolidge administration -- Oh! for a Jefferson -- Prohibition and politics -- The Continental Trading Company Limited and Senate -- Revelations of 1928 -- The campaign of 1928 -- Gratifying victory in 1930 -- The rule. |
Responsibility: | J. Leonard Bates ; foreword by Richard Lowitt. |
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"This is good old-fashioned political history, written with clarity and intelligence. A fine biography of a first-rate but little-known presence in American political life."--Burl Noggle, author of Teapot Dome: Oil and Politics in the 1920s "Walsh is a major figure, the last of the leading progressives to have a significant biography, and Bates shows a masterful knowledge of his subject. His discussion of Teapot Dome is excellent and his insight into Montana politics is acute."--Richard Lowitt, author of The New Deal and the West Read more...
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