Arthur Vandenberg
Subtitle: the man in the middle of the American century
By: Hendrik Meijer
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780226433486
Subjects: Legislators; Biography
Description: xi, 432 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The cause of ruin; title: Class of 1900; title: The shrewdness of Vandenberg; title: Home fires; title: The best of Babbitt; title: Destiny; title: Young Turk; title: Such a perilous hour; title: Insulation; title: It can't happen here; title: The new ordeal; title: Crossroads; title: Repeal; title: Dark horse; title: War; title: This inexplicable man; title: Postwar artist; title: Hunting for the middle ground; title: Committee of eight; title: Brothers under the skin; title: The speech; title: Dear Arthur; title: San Francisco; title: What is Russia up to now?; title: Munich in reverse; title: The Truman Doctrine; title: Calculated risk; title: 500G; title: The last campaign; title: The alliance; title: Things fall apart; title: The upstairs room; title: Epilogue: what tomorrow speaks.