Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana : law and public affairs, from TR to FDR /
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
c1999.
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Table of Contents:
- An Irish-American family
- The young intellectual
- the Dakota frontier
- Helena lawyer and Democrat
- Politics, law, and the copper kings
- Lawyer, Progressive, and public man
- The emergence of a leader
- To the Senate at last
- The tariff fight of 1913
- The "new freedom" in Montana: hopes and illusions
- The "new freedom": a lawyer-senator at work
- The "new freedom" and Western land policy
- America and the "war-mad nations of Europe"
- Winning the West with Wilson, 1915-16
- From peace to war
- Reelection in 1918
- The League of Nations fight
- 1920 politics and issues of the Red Scare
- Walsh and Wheeler, 1922
- Public lands, Native Americans, and campaigns for (honest) leasing
- The investigator
- New prospects for the Democrats
- Winning a third term in 1924
- Abiding the Coolidge administration
- Oh! for a Jefferson
- Prohibition and politics
- The Continental Trading Company Limited and Senate
- Revelations of 1928
- The campaign of 1928
- Gratifying victory in 1930
- The rule
