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Exploring the links between Senator Hubert Humphrey's policies on racial justice and economic reform, Thurber investigates Humphrey's legislative agenda in the context of the tensions between the class-based politics of the New Deal to which Humphrey wished the party to return and the rights-based politics that eventually came to dominate the Democratic platform.
Review Quotes: Timothy N. Thurber's book is a fine contribution to the growing body of scholarship reevaluating, yet again, the history of American liberalism...Thurber is unusually good at showing how politics and government actually work.--Leo P. Ribuffo "American Historical Review"