“Thoroughly researched, carefully analytical, this outstanding biography is
rewarding reading.”
Frank Freidel, WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
“Intelligent and succinct”
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
“Maney brought to the task a talent for exhaustive research, for clear, concise
writing, and most notably, a feeling for he human quality of history. . . . Maney has
put together a tragic drama played with cold facts of history. It would make a
powerful stage or film production.”
THE PROGRESSIVE
“Maney’s biography is not only of a man, but of an age of political stress and
national economic disarray. The author provides an important look at how our
national political leaders in general, and one in particular, saw the world and tried
to make it better.”
THE MILWAUKEE SENTINEL
“Maney is a succinct, objective biographer.”
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
“A first-rate biography, which conveys both a deep and sure grasp of La Follette’s
character and a shrewd assessment of his public career.”
John Milton Cooper, University of Wisconsin—Madison
“The best book written by or about the La Follettes.”
Miles McMillin, CAPITAL TIMES (MADISON)