Harold Ickes of the New Deal: His Private Life and Public Career

by Graham J. White

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674372859
• ISBN13: 9780674372856
• Release Date: April 1985
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.6"