My life in progressive politics : against the grain / Joseph D. Tydings with John W. Frece ; with a foreword by Joe Biden.
Tydings, Joseph D. (Joseph Davies), 1928-2018, author.; Frece, John W., author.
2018
E840.8.T93 A3 2018 (Mapit)
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Title My life in progressive politics : against the grain / Joseph D. Tydings with John W. Frece ; with a foreword by Joe Biden.
Author Tydings, Joseph D. (Joseph Davies), 1928-2018, author.
ISBN 9781623496272 (cloth ; alk. paper)
1623496276
9781623496289 (ebook)
Published College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2018]
Copyright ©2018
Language English
Description xii, 361 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Call Number E840.8.T93 A3 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification 328.73/092 B
Summary "Gun control, voting rights, family planning, and environmental protection--these are all hot-button issues today, but they were also the same difficult and intractable issues that Senator Joseph D. Tydings of Maryland faced during his tenure in the Senate in the 1960s. In this timely memoir, Tydings looks back on a life of public service, from the Maryland General Assembly to chief federal prosecutor in Maryland and ultimately to the United States Senate. As an early "Kennedy Man," Tydings's political stock soared, but it just as quickly crashed because of his willingness to go "against the grain" on perhaps one progressive issue too many. As the adopted son of a US senator, grandson of an adviser to three US presidents, and step-grandson of perhaps the wealthiest woman of her age, Tydings nevertheless made his own way, rising from horse platoon corporal in war-ravaged Germany to legislative reformer. He prosecuted fellow Democrats for fraud, stood up to presidents over Supreme Court nominees and the war in Vietnam, and faced down segregationists over voting rights. His family planning initiatives are still in effect. He battled the National Rifle Association over gun control--and suffered the consequences. After a decade of political assassinations, from the Kennedy brothers to Martin Luther King Jr., and a turn to the right with the election of Richard Nixon, America's political climate soured for progressive politics, and Tydings narrowly lost reelection. My Life in Progressive Politics provides an important, insider account of a landmark era in American politics. Joseph D. Tydings served as United States senator from Maryland from 1965 to 1971. He earlier served in the Maryland House of Delegates from 1955 to 1961 and as United States Attorney from 1961 to 1963"--Publisher's website.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author Frece, John W., author.
Series Eugenia and Hugh M. Stewart '26 series.
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Foreword / by Joe Biden
Part I.A Political Life. Against the grain ; Oakington ; A plan for life
Part II. Reform and Independence. Against the legislative tide ; Regulating savings and loan associations ; Kennedy Man ; A prosecutor the organization didn't want ; A thirty-two-month learning experience ; A tangle of savings and loan scams ; Kidnapping, murder, and assassination ; Challenging the Democratic machine ; A break with the past
Part III. A Freshman Senator's Voice. Defending the great Warren Court decisions ; "A voteless people is a hopeless people" ; Fairness in federal court ; Congress and the City of Washington
Part IV. The Hardest Fights. Vietnam and the political costs of war ; The environment and overpopulation ; Gun control ; One progressive position too many ; Citizen public service
Epilogue: An open letter to my grandchildren (and their generation).

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