Pat Harrison: The New Deal Years

by Martha H. Swain

Byron Patton "Pat" Harrison was chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance during the New Deal, and under his tutelage the committee handled many of the major measures of the decade. Harrison brought to his post enormous influence based not only upon congressional longevity dating from his entry into the House of Representatives in 1911 and the Senate in 1919 but also upon a happy combination of personal qualities that made him perhaps the most popular...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1604732636
• ISBN13: 9781604732634
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"