Description: In chronicling the life and career of Albert Gore, Sr., historian Anthony J. Badger explores the successes and failures of this Tennessee politician who was in the national eye for more than thirty years and whose career illuminates the significance of race, religion, and class in the creation of the modern South.
Review Quotes: "Mr. Badger, a British historian of the American New Deal, has an instinctive grasp of American culture and politics."-- "The Wall Street Journal"