Fulbright : the dissenter
Haynes Johnson (Author), Bernard M. Gwertzman (Author)
The story of J. William Fulbright "from his boyhood in Arkansas to his student days at Oxford, from his early days in Congress ... to his later career in the Senate, where his sometimes unorthodox opinions often called down upon his head the wrath of both the legislative and the executive branches." -- Dust jacket
Print Book, English, 1968
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Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y., 1968
collective biographies
x, 321 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
414732
Prologue: Power
Book one: Student. "In the main, honest, trustworthy" ; All-American from Arkansas ; "If convenient, some knowledge" ; The squire of Rabbit's Foot Lodge ; "It has been suggested I am too young"
Book two: Politician. A family affair ; The mad capital of a mad world ; "I am fully conscious of my deficiencies" ; British Billy
Book three: Senator. "Just a boy from the Ozarks" ; "A profound uneasiness has spread" ; A common noun called Fulbright ; The deterioration of democracy ; "Senator Halfbright" ; "On, no, Senator, not you!" ; "The age of the amateur is over"
Book four: Critic. JFK: "He made me proud of my country" ; LBJ: "On the verge of the golden age" ; The break: prelude ; The break: denouement ; The land of the dominoes ; The arrogance of power ; The nervous Nellie
Epilogue: Assessment
Includes index