True Believer: Hubert Humphrey's Quest for a More Just America

by James Traub

A celebrated historian recounts Hubert Humphrey's role as a liberal hero of twentieth-century America

Hubert Humphrey was liberalism's most dedicated defender, and its most public and tragic sacrifice. As a young politician in 1948, he defied segregationists and forced the Democratic Party to commit itself to civil rights. As a senator in 1964, he made good on that commitment by helping pass the Civil Rights Act. But as Lyndon B. Johnson's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1541619579
• ISBN13: 9781541619579
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.5"