Claude A. Swanson of Virginia: A Political Biography (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813152431)

Spanning most of the years of the one-party South, the public career of Virginian Claude A. Swanson, congressman, governor, senator, and secretary of the navy, extended from the second administration of Grover Cleveland into that of Franklin Roosevelt. His record, writes Henry C. Ferrell, Jr., in this definitive biography, is that of ""a skillful legislative diplomat and an exceedingly wise executive encompassed in the personality of a professional politician."" As a congressman, Swanson abandone

Author: Henry C. Ferrell
ISBN-10: 0813152437
ISBN-13: 9780813152431
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d