Sly and able : a political biography of James F. Byrnes /
"Few American political figures have had as long, as eventful, as varied, and as consequential a career as James F. "Jimmy" Byrnes of South Carolina. This quintessential self-made man and master politician was centrally involved in many of the epochal domestic and international develo...
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New York :
Norton,
1994.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Political fathers: learning the craft (1882-1930)
- 1. Can anything good come out of Charleston?
- 2. Pitchfork Ben Tillman
- 3. Dear Mr. Baruch
- pt. 2. The inheritance: the senate and beyond (1931-1941)
- 4. Fixer from the Palmetto state
- 5. The general textile strike of 1934
- 6. The Philadelphia story
- 7. A vast empire nearby
- 8. They were utterly deceived
- 9. Jumping the traces
- 10. The purge of 1938
- 11. Justice Byrnes and the coming war
- pt. 3. Leaving his father's house (1942-1972)
- 12. The assistant president
- 13. The convention of 1944
- 14. Roosevelt's last gift
- 15. Politics and the bomb
- 16. The street to Hiroshima
- 17. Rocking the boat with Truman
- 18. Iranian winter and a cold warrior
- 19. A disquisition on government
- 20. South Carolina coda.
