A very private public citizen : the life of Grenville Clark
Record details
- ISBN: 9780826220233
- ISBN: 082627319X
- ISBN: 9780826273192
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (289 pages) : illustrations
remote - Publisher: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2014]
- Copyright: ©2014
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Ninth-generation Manhattanite -- Life on the street -- Wall Street -- Domestication : Clark the family man -- Public service provocateur : the Plattsburg camps -- Wartime : building on Plattsburg -- Suburbia, breakdown, and recovery -- Full speed ahead -- Taking on the president : Grenville Clark, Franklin Roosevelt, and the 1937 court-packing battle -- Defending rabble-rousers -- Preparedness redux : the draft, World War II, War Department service -- Retreat to Dublin : organizing for peace -- Resisting cold warriors, writing for peace, defending academic freedom -- Uneasy peace -- the 1950s -- Sprint to the finish : the 1960s -- Legacy, lessons, relevance -- Postscript : final words from the source. |
Source of Description Note: | Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 12, 2014). |
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