Henry A. Wallace (1888-1965) remains one of the most puzzling figures of twentieth-century American politics. Serving as secretary of agriculture during the Great Depression, as vice president from 1941 to 1945, and advocating accommodation with the Soviet Union as the Progressive Party's candidate for president in 1948, Wallace had embarked on a spiritual odyssey that shaped his quest for world peace. In this interpretive biography, Graham White and John Maze explore Wallace's political career, his enigmatic personality, and the origins and development of his social, political, and religious thought, including his mystical beliefs. According to White and Maze, an eclectic spiritualism and its attendant social attitudes were central to Wallace's political goals and the course of his public life. Wallace hoped that through free trade, shared technological development, and international economic cooperation, inequity and greed would be made obsolete. Drawing extensively on Wallace's personal papers, his political diary, and his 5,000-page memoir, this study sheds new light not only on Wallace himself, but also on the Roosevelt administration in which he served.
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"A rare examination of the life, accomplishments, and intellectual roots of an extraordinary though neglected figure."--Kirkus Reviews
"A superb effort."--Boston Globe
"This careful scholarly biography gives a convincing psychological profile of a highly controversial figure--one whom contemporaries often regarded as inexplicable."--Foreign Affairs
"A revealing political biography of a major 20th-century politician."--Choice
"The best serious treatment of Wallace and his role in United States history in a generation. . . . A major contribution to understanding both Wallace and his larger relationship to the world of New Deal politics and thought."--Journal of American History --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
"A superb effort."--Boston Globe
"This careful scholarly biography gives a convincing psychological profile of a highly controversial figure--one whom contemporaries often regarded as inexplicable."--Foreign Affairs
"A revealing political biography of a major 20th-century politician."--Choice
"The best serious treatment of Wallace and his role in United States history in a generation. . . . A major contribution to understanding both Wallace and his larger relationship to the world of New Deal politics and thought."--Journal of American History --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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