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Fighting Bob La Follette
Author | : Nancy C. Unger |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2003-06-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0807861022 |
Robert "Fighting Bob" La Follette (1855-1925) was one of the most significant leaders of American progressivism. Nancy Unger integrates previously unknown details from La Follette's personal life with important events from his storied political career, revealing a complex man who was a compelling mixture of failure and accomplishment, tragedy and triumph. Serving as U.S. representative from 1885 to 1891, governor of Wisconsin from 1901 to 1906, and senator from Wisconsin from 1906 to his death in 1925, La Follette earned the nickname "Fighting Bob" through his uncompromising efforts to reform both politics and society, especially by championing the rights of the poor, workers, women, and minorities. Based on La Follette family letters, diaries, and other papers, this biography covers the personal events that shaped the public man. In particular, Unger explores La Follette's relationship with his remarkable wife, feminist Belle Case La Follette, and with his sons, both of whom succeeded him in politics. The La Follette who emerges from this retelling is an imperfect yet appealing man who deserves to be remembered as one of the United States' most devoted and effective politicians.
Belle La Follette
Author | : Nancy C. Unger |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2015-07-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317674243 |
In 1931, the New York Times hailed Belle Case La Follette as "probably the least known yet most influential of all the American women who have had to do with public affairs." A dedicated advocate for women's suffrage, peace, and other causes, she served as a key advisor to her husband, leading Progressive politician Robert La Follette. She also wielded considerable influence through her own speeches and journalism, as when she opposed racism by speaking out against the segregation of the federal government under President Woodrow Wilson. In a concise, lively, and engaging narrative, Nancy C. Unger shows how Belle La Follette uniquely contributed to progressive reform, as well as the ways her work was typical of women--and progressives--of her time. Supported by primary documents and a robust companion website, this book introduces students of American history to an extraordinary woman and the era of Progressive reform.
On Wisconsin Women
Author | : Genevieve G. McBride |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780299140045 |
On Wisconsin Women traces the role women played in reform movements, both in Wisconsin state politics and in its press. Women's news and opinions often appeared anonymously in abolitionist journals and other reform newspapers even before Wisconsin became a state in 1848. The first state newspaper published under a woman's name was boycotted and failed in 1853. But from the passage of the 14th amendment in 1866 to Wisconsin's ratification of the 19th amendment in 1919, women were never at a loss for words or a newspaper to print them. Women's news won a new respectability under feminine bylines and led to the historic victory for women's suffrage. McBride undertakes the task of considering feminist reform as a conceptual whole.
The La Follettes of Wisconsin
Author | : Bernard A. Weisberger |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1994-02-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780299141301 |
A collective biography of a prominent American political family, the La Follettes of Wisconsin, whose lives were inexorably linked with the Progressive movement.
Robert M. La Follette, June 14, 1855-June 18, 1925. Chapters I-Xxvi, by Belle Case La Follette and Chapters Xxvi-Lxxii by Fola La Follette
Author | : Belle Case La Follette |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1395 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : La Follette, Robert Marion, 1855-1925 |
ISBN | : |