Hubert Humphrey : the conscience of the country / Arnold A. Offner.

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]

©2018

xv, 490 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm

Yale copies signed by author.

Hubert Humphrey was one of the great liberal leaders of postwar American politics, yet because he never made it to the Oval Office he has been largely overlooked by biographers. His career encompassed three well-known high points: the civil rights speech at the 1948 Democratic Convention that risked his political future; his shepherding of the 1964 Civil Rights Act through the Senate; and his near-victory in the 1968 presidential election, one of the angriest and most divisive in the country's history.

Conscience of the country

English

October 26, 2018

Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-466) and index.

History.