Harold Le Clair Ickes made his first reputation as a newsman in Chicago's gilded era. He made his second as a mover and shaker in the Progressive Party. And he made his third as our longest-serving and most influential Interior Secretary and one of the most volatile of FDR's New Dealers. Now Watkins brings to life this prototypical American. A National Book Award finalist. 32 pages of illustrations.
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From Publishers Weekly
Harold Ickes, Franklin Roosevelt's Secretary of the Interior and the New Deal's resident conscience, triumphed over an emotionally stunted, penurious childhood and massive personality flaws. His stint as a Chicago reporter exposed him to the unholy alliance between money and politics. A fervent Progressive, the irascible, nettlesome, arrogant, incorruptible politician with a satiric smile and the bespectacled face of a righteous scold harnessed the nation's energies, championing the wilderness, building dams, fighting dust storms. In this engaging, monumental biography, Watkins, editor of Wilderness magazine, probes Ickes's unhappy marriage, his insomnia and the frustrated hopes that drove him to use work to stave off depression and fill the emptiness within. Watkins measures the New Deal's successes against its roadblocks and failures. Photos.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Ickes, long the best recorder of his own story through autobiography and a massive diary, has found his biographer. Watkins, vice-president of the Wilderness Society and editor of Wilderness magazine, not only gives environmentalists a hero whom they may scarcely know, but his splendidly written life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Interior Secretary is also a major work of New Deal scholarship. Conservation was but one area of achievement for Ickes, whose furious political career spanned Progressive-era Chicago and Harry Truman's Washington; all the while with a private life so atilt as to delight any biographer--and any reader. The one other complete biography, Graham White's Harold Ickes of the New Deal ( LJ 7/85), approaches Ickes from a more psychological angle and is far less satisfying than Watkins's work. Highly recommended to most public and academic libraries.
- Robert F. Nardini, North Chichester, N.H.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Robert F. Nardini, North Chichester, N.H.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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