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Best Nonfiction Book of the Year from the Wyoming State Historical Society
There was a time when Wyoming and other Rocky Mountain and midwestern states were as likely to elect a liberal Democrat to Congress as they were a conservative Republican. Gale McGee (1915-92) was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1958, at the height of American liberalism. He typified what Teddy Roosevelt called "the man in the arena" and was a major player in the development of America's post-World War II foreign policy and almost every legislative milestone in U.S. history from the 1950s to 1980. McGee's careers as an academic, a senator, and an ambassador spanned World War II, the Red Scare, the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and the activist Congress of the 1960s. This elegantly conceived biography of a liberal from the conservative rural state of Wyoming offers readers a glimpse into formative political shifts of the twentieth century.
The national liberal consensus of the 1960s, in which McGee played a major role, gave the nation Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the minimum wage, and the right to collective bargaining, as well as landmark civil rights and environmental reforms. That consensus had ended by the mid-1970s as McGee's liberalism would no longer be welcome to represent the Equality State.
Moving beyond biography, Rodger McDaniel addresses the significant shift in government and details how the attribution "liberal" became a candidate's epitaph, as widespread distrust of government cast a shadow on the many benefits acquired through the old liberal consensus. McDaniel's insights into the past as well as McGee's experiences in the arena shed unexpected light on the present state of U.S. politics and government.
Contents
Contents
Foreword by Alan K. Simpson
Author's Note and Acknowledgments
Prologue
1. From the "Sons of the Mist" to the Plains of Wyoming
2. Nothing to Lose but a Little Self-Respect
3. The Good News from Foggy Bottom
4. Behind the Iron Curtain
5. Drunkards Can't Do That
6. Not Even a Dark Horse but a Hopeless One
7. A Name to Be Reckoned With
8. Give Me Four More Votes
9. Searching Souls, Minds, and Spirits
10. A Man of Great Faith, Not Dark Fears
11. Wars Can No Longer Be Won, but They Can Be Lost
12. Reaping the Whirlwind
13. It's Nice to Have Dick Nixon to Kick Around Again
14. Wyoming's Way of Life Is at Stake
15. Time for a Change
16. A Third Career
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
