Sly & Able - Couverture souple

David, Robertson

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0393335151 ISBN 13 : 9780393335156

Editeur : W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1980

Synopsis

This master politician and self-made man served for half a century, as congressman and later as key New Deal senator from his native South Carolina; as Supreme Court justice; as "assistant president" during the Second World War; as Truman's secretary of state in the early years of the Cold War; and, finally, as governor of South Carolina. He came tantalisingly close to the American presidency and was a key participant in the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan. In later years he was a seminal figure in the so-called Southern Strategy that brought Richard Nixon to the White House. For his shrewdness and mastery of the art of politics Byrnes earned the sobriquet "sly and able." He was surely both--and one of the key shapers of American politics in this century.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: W. W. Norton and Company, Inc.
• Date d'édition: 1980
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0393335151
• ISBN 13: 9780393335156
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 676
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible