Description: Gruening is perhaps best known for his vehement fight against U.S. military involvement in Vietnam. However, as Johnson shows here, it's Gruening's sixty-year public career in its entirety that provides an opportunity for historians to explore continuity and change in dissenting thought in twentieth-century America.
Brief description: Robert David "KC" Johnson is Professor of History, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Review Quotes: There's no question that Ernest Gruening deserves a biography, [and] there's no question that Johnson has written a fine, penetrating life of Gruening. 'Definitive' is a word most of us shy away from, but Johnson has written so well, so comprehensively, and so understandingly about Gruening that it doesn't seem likely that another biography will be needed...A fine work. The research is really impressive. It's clear, interesting, well-done.--John Milton Cooper, Jr., University of Wisconsin-Madison