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Arthur Vandenberg : the man in the middle of the American century / Hendrik Meijer.

LIBRA E748.V18 M45 2017
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Meijer, Hendrik G., 1952- author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Vandenberg, Arthur H. (Arthur Hendrick), 1884-1951.
Vandenberg, Arthur H.
Legislators--Michigan--Biography.
Legislators.
United States--Biography.
United States.
Michigan.
Genre:
Biographies.
Physical Description:
xi, 432 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Contents:
The cause of ruin
Class of 1900
The shrewdness of Vandenberg
Home fires
The best of Babbitt
Destiny
Young Turk
Such a perilous hour
Insulation
It can't happen here
The new ordeal
Crossroads
Repeal
Dark horse
War
This inexplicable man
Postwar artist
Hunting for the middle ground
Committee of eight
Brothers under the skin
The speech
Dear Arthur
San Francisco
What is Russia up to now?
Munich in reverse
The Truman Doctrine
Calculated risk
500g
The last campaign
The alliance
Things fall apart
The upstairs room
Epilogue: what tomorrow speaks.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780226433486
022643348X
OCLC:
975857115

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