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Fighting Bob La Follette: Visionary American Leftist

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 June 2011

Matthew Rothschild*
Affiliation:
The Progressive

Extract

Robert M. La Follette Sr. is a fabled character in the state of Wisconsin, and his name adorns streets and schools across the Dairy State. In the U.S. Senate, a bust of La Follette rests in the Rotunda, and La Follette is credited, by historians and senators alike, as being one of the greatest and most effective members who ever served in that body.

Type
Forum: La Follette's Wisconsin in Perspective
Copyright
Copyright © Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2011

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References

1 Downey, Kirstin, The Woman behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience (New York, 2009)Google Scholar.