Mccarthy of Wisconsin / / Edward A. Fitzpatrick.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Fitzpatrick, Edward A.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1944]; ©1944
• Year of Publication: 1944
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Looks at the life of Charles McCarthy on the basis of manuscript material deposited in the Wisconsin Historical Society together with documents still in the possession of the family.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Illustrations -- I. Early Years -- II. Education, Marriage, and a Job -- III. The Wisconsin Soil -- IV. The Legislative Reference Library: Its Beginnings -- V. The Legislative Reference Library: Buttress of Democracy -- VI. The Legislative Reference Library: New Methods and Materials -- VII. A Political Blitzkrieg against McCarthy -- VIII. McCarthy's Personal Influence on Legislation -- IX. The Legislative Reference Library and Progressive Legislation -- X. Good Laws, Good Administration, and the Judges -- XI. The State Board of Public Affairs -- XII. Charles McCarthy, the Bull Moose, and Theodore Roosevelt -- XIII. Better Business, Better Farming, Better Living -- XIV. The Federal Commission on Industrial Relations -- XV. The War Years -- XVI. Two Extraneous Episodes -- XVII. The University of Wisconsin and University Extension -- XVIII. The Continuation School: the Educationally Disinherited -- XIX. The Significance of McCarthy -- Appendices -- I. University Extension: Memorandum to President Van Hise, 1906 -- II. University Extension and Vocational Training: Plan proposed to President Van Hise, 1910 -- III. The La Follette Political Platform: Letter to William Draper Lewis, July 12, 1912 -- IV. On the Investigation of the Steel Strike: Letter to Luke Grant, September 28, 1914 -- V. On Irish Agricultural Organization: Letter to Charles W. Holman, June 5, 1915 -- VI. Academic Record of Charles McCarthy -- Index