Fighting Bob La Follette
Fighting Bob La Follette

Author: Nancy C. Unger

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2003-06-19

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 0807861022

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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.

Young Bob
Young Bob

Author: Patrick J. Maney

Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 087020341X

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He made his mark on national life as a key architect of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, a leading champion of labor rights and civil liberties, and author of legislation that endures to this present day." "Young Bob was one of the best senators in history but also one of the most tragic. In 1946, at the height of his national prominence, La Follette lost his Senate seat to Joseph McCarthy. Seven years later, with McCarthy very much on his mind, La Follette committed suicide."--BOOK JACKET.

Robert M. La Follette and the Insurgent Spirit
Robert M. La Follette and the Insurgent Spirit

Author: David Paul Thelen

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780299106447

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Robert M. La Follette and the Insurgent Spirit is a closely argued, lively, and readable biography of the central figure in the American Progressive movement. Wisconsin's "Fighting Bob" La Follette embodied the heart of Progressive sentiment and principle. He was a powerful force in shaping national political events between the eras of Populism and the New Deal

La Follette
La Follette

Author: Robert S. Maxwell

Publisher: Pearson

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13:

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Written for developers with a background in any high-level language, Introduction to Python and Data Science for Programmers explores the Python language and Python APIs in depth, applying the Deitels' signature live-code approach to teaching programming. Paul Deitel and Dr. Harvey M. Deitel present concepts in the context of fully tested programs, complete with syntax shading, code highlighting, line-by-line code walkthroughs, and program outputs. They feature hundreds of complete Python programs with nearly 20,000 lines of proven Python code, and hundreds of tips to help you build robust applications. You'll start with an introduction to Python using an early classes and objects approach, and then rapidly move on to more advanced topics. Throughout, you'll enjoy the Deitels' classic treatment of object-oriented programming. By the time you're finished, you'll have everything you need to build industrial-strength Python applications.

La Follette's Autobiography
La Follette's Autobiography

Author: Robert Marion La Follette

Publisher:

Published: 1913

Total Pages: 888

ISBN-13:

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The autobiography of Robert La Follette (1855-1925) traces the political life and accomplishments of this eminent Republican politician from his election as district attorney for Dane County, Wisconsin in 1880 to the presidential campaign of 1912, when his bid to dislodge President William Howard Taft was pushed aside by former president Theodore Roosevelt on the Progressive Party's national ticket. The book emphasizes tactics, strategies, and coalition-building as well as La Follette's assessments of various local and national public figures. We learn little about La Follette's childhood, education, legal training or family life, although he does pay tribute to his wife, a lawyer and civic reformer in her own right. La Follette served three terms in Congress (1885-1891); and after a decade of private law practice and grassroots activism, was elected Wisconsin's governor (1900-1904). From 1905 until his death, La Follette was a senator. He crusaded at state and national level against powerful, unregulated business interests--especially the railroads--which he felt exerted undue influence upon government. He also championed open primary elections, equitable taxation of corporations, and public management of public resources by highly qualified, non-partisan public servants. While many of these influential reforms were instituted at the state level during his governorship, his contribution in the Senate may have had less to do with his legislative record than with his ability to rally forces around well-articulated programs.

The La Follettes of Wisconsin
The La Follettes of Wisconsin

Author: Bernard A. Weisberger

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 1994-02-15

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9780299141301

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A collective biography of a prominent American political family, the La Follettes of Wisconsin, whose lives were inexorably linked with the Progressive movement.

Unreasonable Men
Unreasonable Men

Author: Michael Wolraich

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2014-07-22

Total Pages: 453

ISBN-13: 1137438088

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At the turn of the twentieth century, the Republican Party stood at the brink of an internal civil war. After a devastating financial crisis, furious voters sent a new breed of politician to Washington. These young Republican firebrands, led by "Fighting Bob" La Follette of Wisconsin, vowed to overthrow the party leaders and purge Wall Street's corrupting influence from Washington. Their opponents called them "radicals," and "fanatics." They called themselves Progressives. President Theodore Roosevelt disapproved of La Follette's confrontational methods. Fearful of splitting the party, he compromised with the conservative House Speaker, "Uncle Joe" Cannon, to pass modest reforms. But as La Follette's crusade gathered momentum, the country polarized, and the middle ground melted away. Three years after the end of his presidency, Roosevelt embraced La Follette's militant tactics and went to war against the Republican establishment, bringing him face to face with his handpicked successor, William Taft. Their epic battle shattered the Republican Party and permanently realigned the electorate, dividing the country into two camps: Progressive and Conservative. Unreasonable Men takes us into the heart of the epic power struggle that created the progressive movement and defined modern American politics. Recounting the fateful clash between the pragmatic Roosevelt and the radical La Follette, Wolraich's riveting narrative reveals how a few Republican insurgents broke the conservative chokehold on Congress and initiated the greatest period of political change in America's history.

Banks on the Brink
Banks on the Brink

Author: Mark Copelovitch

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-02-20

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1108489885

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International capital flow and domestic financial market structures explain why some countries are more vulnerable to banking crises.