Richard B. Russell, Jr.: Senator from Georgia [Paperback]

Gilbert C. Fite (Author)

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• Paperback: 584 pages
• Publisher: University of N. Carolina Press (August 31, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0807854654
• ISBN-13: 978-0807854655
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.3 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,769,648 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars A fast but not really filling read., October 29, 2003

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This review is from: Richard B. Russell, Jr.: Senator from Georgia (Paperback)

Richard B Russell Democrat from Winder Georgia, was an extremely skilled parlimentarian and executive. However he was easy prey for Lyndon Johnson who gave him the shad treatment. In looking at this man's life he accomplished many things but in the end was lacking in 3 things. The courage to step up and lead the Senate and bend it to his will on agricultural and defense issues and an inability to see beyond his roots and their limiting factors he could of broken the mold and become President if he realized that geography and socioeconomic factors would inflict a defacto segragation on America and that once they were done with the Civil rights struggle the north would lose much of it's passion for social reform and change and the nation would be generally like it always was with blacks in the end vanishing into the mostly white Hispanic race. The third thing that I found him lacking in was honor he was but a Lyndon Johnson stepping stone and no Samuel T Rayburn.