Ernest Gruening and the American dissenting tradition
By: Robert David Johnson.
Series: Harvard historical studies ;; 132; Harvard historical studies ;; v. 132.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 375
Subjects: Gruening, Ernest, 1887-1974.; United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography.; Legislators -- United States -- Biography.; Dissenters -- United States -- Biography.; Opposition (Political science) -- United States -- Case studies.; Liberalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Governors -- Alaska -- Biography.
Description: Ernest Gruening is perhaps best known for his vehement fight against U.S. military involvement in Vietnam, where he set himself apart by casting one of two votes against the Tonkin Gulf Resolution in 1964. However, as Robert Johnson shows in this political biography, it's Gruening's sixty-year public career in its entirety that provides an opportunity for historians to explore continuity and change in dissenting thought, on both domestic and international affairs, in the twentieth-century United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-369) and index.