Harold Ickes of the New Deal : : His Private Life and Public Career / / Graham White, John Maze.
Very little has been written about Harold Ickes, one of the most important, complex, and colorful figures of the New Deal. By any standards his public career was remarkable. For thirteen turbulent years as Interior Secretary and as head of the Public Works Administration he was an uncommonly effecti...
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White, Graham, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Harold Ickes of the New Deal : His Private Life and Public Career / Graham White, John Maze. Reprint 2014 Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013] ©1985 1 online resource (263 p.) : 1 Frontispiz text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Chronology -- Prologue -- One. Altoona Boyhood -- Two. Anna and Chicago Reform -- Three. Locust Years -- Four. Mr. Ickes Goes to Washington -- Five. Extending the Empire: PWA and the Forests -- Six. Harold and the Men around Franklin Roosevelt -- Seven. Warfare–Bureaucratic and Foreign -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Very little has been written about Harold Ickes, one of the most important, complex, and colorful figures of the New Deal. By any standards his public career was remarkable. For thirteen turbulent years as Interior Secretary and as head of the Public Works Administration he was an uncommonly effective official and a widely acknowledged leader of liberal reform. As the foremost conservationist of his time, he saved millions of acres of land from decimation. He was matchless, too, as a fighter for just causes, and used his formidable talent for invective and his inexhaustible supply of moral fervor to flay representatives of prejudice and self-interest, whether in the cause of Negro rights or that of the common man against economic royalists. Despite a long and distinguished public life, Ickes is an enigma because of his inability to control his rage, to temper his public criticism, to respond objectively to situations. At the heart of his public and private life was constant moral outrage. This astute study by a historian and a psychologist probes the sources and consequences of Ickes' abnormal combativeness. White and Maze uncover the psychological imperatives and conscious ideals of Ickes' unknown private life that illuminate his public career. Some of the episodes include sadistic attacks by an elder brother; young Harold contemplating shooting his father; bitter and physical brawls with his imperious, wealthy, and previously married socialite wife, Anna Wilmarth Thompson of Chicago; and thoughts of suicide. Richard Polenberg calls this book "Superb [and] one of the most informative and interesting I have read on the New Deal. The story shows Ickes' weaknesses and flaws, but it puts them in context. The authors have not tried to explain everything Ickes ever did wholly in psychological terms, but the particular insights they bring to bear help present a rounded view of the man. The book is beautifully written." Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Nov 2021) Biographie. Geschichte Nordamerikas. New Deal, 1933-1939. New Deal. Political science. Statesmen United States Biography. Statesmen. Ickes, Harold L. (Harold LeClair), 1874-1952. POLITICAL SCIENCE / General. United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political. bisacsh Maze, John, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: American History eBook Package 9783110353464 ZDB-23-HAH Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package 9783110353488 ZDB-23-HCO Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 9783110442212 print 9780674365902 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674365919 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674365919 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674365919/original |
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