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Senator Albert Gore, Sr. : Tennessee maverick
- Title
- Senator Albert Gore, Sr. : Tennessee maverick / Kyle Longley ; with a foreword by Al Gore, Jr.
- Author
- Longley, Kyle.
- Publication
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2004], ©2004.
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- Description
- xv, 350 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "Best remembered as the father of Vice President Al Gore, Albert Gore, Sr., worked tirelessly in politics himself, a Democratic congressman and senator from 1939 to 1971 and a representative of southern liberalism and American reformism. In the first comprehensive biography of Gore, Kyle Longley has produced an incisive portrait of a significant American political leader and an arresting narrative of the shaping of a southern and American political tradition. His research includes archival sources from across the country as well as interviews with Gore's colleagues, friends, and family." "Longley situates Gore as part of a generation of politicians who matured on the messages of William Jennings Bryan, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin Roosevelt. In the South, Gore belonged to a staunch group of liberals who battled traditional conservative forces, often within their own party. He and others such as Estes Kefauver, Frank Porter Graham, and Ralph Yarborough set the stage for subsequent generations, including that of Jimmy Carter and Jim Sasser, and later Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Jr., and John Edwards. From his career shines one encapsulating moment in 1952: squared off on the floor of the Senate against Strom Thurmond, who wanted Gore to sign the "Southern Manifesto" declaring southern resistance to desegregation, Gore responded simply, classically, "Hell no.""--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Southern biography series
- Uniform Title
- Southern biography series.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-334) and index.
- ISBN
- 0807129801 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004011048
- OCLC
- ocm55208447
- SCSB-5081173
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries