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04595aam a2200541 i 4500 001 95B0F8FA6CA011E9A39CB90697128E48 003 SILO 005 20190502010142 008 180928s2019 okua b 001 0beng 010 $a 2018025837 020 $a 0806140852 020 $a 9780806140858 035 $a (OCoLC)1060183267 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d BDX $d OCLCF $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-mt $a n-us-mt 050 00 $a E748.W5 $b J64 2019 082 00 $a 328.73/092 $2 23 084 $a HIS037070 $a HIS036140 $a HIS037070 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Johnson, Marc C., $d 1953- $e author. 245 10 $a Political hell-raiser : $b the life and times of Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana / $c Marc C. Johnson. 264 1 $a Norman : $b University of Oklahoma Press, $c [2019] 300 $a xiii, 486 pages ; $c 25 cm 520 $a "Burton K. Wheeler (1882-1975) may have been the most powerful politician Montana ever produced, and he was one of the most influential--and controversial--members of the United States Senate during three of the most eventful decades in American history. A New Deal Democrat and lifelong opponent of concentrated power--whether economic, military, or executive--he consistently acted with a righteous personal and political independence that has all but disappeared from the public sphere. Political Hell-Raiser is the first book to tell the full story of Wheeler, a genuine maverick whose successes and failures were woven into the political fabric of twentieth-century America. Wheeler came of political age amid antiwar and labor unrest in Butte, Montana, during World War I. As a crusading United States attorney, he battled Montana's powerful economic interests, championed farmers and miners, and won election to the U.S. Senate in 1922. There he made his name as one of the "Montana scandalmongers," uncovering corruption in the Harding and Coolidge administrations. Drawing on extensive research and new archival sources, Marc C. Johnson follows Wheeler from his early backing of Franklin D. Roosevelt and ardent support of the New Deal to his forceful opposition to Roosevelt's plan to expand the Supreme Court and, in a move widely viewed as political suicide, his emergence as the most prominent spokesman against U.S. involvement in World War II right up to three days before Pearl Harbor.Initiate Another SILO Locator Search
Johnson provides the most thorough telling of Wheeler's entire career, including all its accomplishments and contradictions, as well as the political storms that the senator both encouraged and endured. The book convincingly establishes the place and importance of this principled hell-raiser in American political history."-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a The Black Heart of Montana -- Boxcar Burt Becomes Senator Wheeler -- The Investigation and the Frame-Up -- The Progressive Campaign -- A Son of the Wild Jackass -- A Long and Bumpy Relationship -- New Deal Irregular -- Defeating the Power Trust -- Nine Old Men and Wheeler -- Purge -- Mr. Wheeler Goes for the White House -- America First -- Big Screen, Big Leak -- War and Decline -- Defeat. 520 $a "A comprehensive, critical biography of Montana Senator Burton K. Wheeler, an influential and controversial political figure of the New Deal era"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 600 10 $a Wheeler, Burton K. $q (Burton Kendall), $d 1882-1975. 610 10 $a United States. $b Senate $b Senate $v Biography. 600 17 $a Wheeler, Burton K. $q (Burton Kendall), $d 1882-1975. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00207448 610 17 $a United States. $b Senate. $b Senate. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00530422 650 0 $a Legislators $z United States $v Biography. 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 1901-1953. 651 0 $a Montana $x Politics and government $y 20th century. 651 0 $a Montana $v Biography. 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY). $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Legislators. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00995828 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 651 7 $a Montana. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01207555 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a Biography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423686 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210304011129.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=95B0F8FA6CA011E9A39CB90697128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWA