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Author:
Hill, Nancy Peterson. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2015012345
Title:
A very private public citizen : the life of Grenville Clark / Nancy Peterson Hill.
Publisher:
University Of Missouri Press,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
xvi, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject:
Clark, Grenville,--1882-1967.
Lawyers--United States--Biography.
Clark, Grenville,--1882-1967.
Lawyers.
United States.
Biography.
Biographies.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-258) and index.
Contents:
15. Legacy, lessons, relevance -- Postscript: Final words from the source. 2. Life on the street -- Wall Street -- 3. Domestication: Clark the family man -- 4. Public service provocateur: the Plattsburg camps -- 5. Wartime: building on Plattsburg -- 6. Suburbia, breakdown, and recovery -- 7. Full speed ahead -- 8. Taking on the President: Grenville Clark, Franklin Roosevelt, and the 1937 court-packing battle -- 9. Defending rabble-rousers -- 10. Preparededness redux: the draft, World War II, War Department service -- 11. Retreat to Dublin: organizing for peace -- 12. Resisting Cold Warriors, writing for peace, defending academic freedom -- 13. Uneasy peace: the 1950s -- 14. Sprint to the finish: the 1960s -- 15. Legacy, lessons, relevance -- Postscript: Final words from the source.
ISBN:
9780826220233
0826220231
OCLC:
(OCoLC)867020652
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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