Rendezvous with Destiny: A History of Modern American ReformKnopf, 1952 - 503 pages |
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Page 168
... Follette was happy to make eight hundred dollars a year as a horseback district attorney . Nor did La Follette come to dissidence slowly . His region in Wisconsin was shot through with rural discontent ; he read his Henry George as a ...
... Follette was happy to make eight hundred dollars a year as a horseback district attorney . Nor did La Follette come to dissidence slowly . His region in Wisconsin was shot through with rural discontent ; he read his Henry George as a ...
Page 169
... Follette always insisted , was the making of the progressive . Jumping back into politics , he lashed out at both political parties , declaring that political democracy was meaningless as long as money controlled its machinery . With ...
... Follette always insisted , was the making of the progressive . Jumping back into politics , he lashed out at both political parties , declaring that political democracy was meaningless as long as money controlled its machinery . With ...
Page 240
... Follette's Magazine cried : " If a man dares to intimate that he is unwilling to swallow the whole program for ... Follette continued his assault on " selfish ambition and cruel greed " and added all the other points in the usual ...
... Follette's Magazine cried : " If a man dares to intimate that he is unwilling to swallow the whole program for ... Follette continued his assault on " selfish ambition and cruel greed " and added all the other points in the usual ...
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Bejabers Im Worth Me Thousands | 3 |
Thrust from the Top | 10 |
From the Bottom Up | 29 |
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