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True Believer: Hubert Humphrey’s Quest for a More Just America
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Author:
James Traub
Publisher:
Basic Books
Date:
February 13, 2024
Hubert Humphrey was liberalism's most dedicated defender, and its most public and tragic sacrifice. As a young politician in 1948, he defied segregationists and forced the Democratic Party to commit itself to civil rights. As a senator in 1964, he made good on that commitment by helping pass the Civil Rights Act. But as Lyndon B. Johnson's vice president, his support for the war in Vietnam made him a target for both Right and Left, and he suffered a shattering loss in the presidential election of 1968.
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A brisk, engaging biography of Humphrey with an urgent underlying message for today’s liberals..
This corrective, vivid biography expands readers’ knowledge of Humphrey and chronicles how hard work and idealism can make things better..
