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Article: Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer.
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- The Progressive
- Article date:
- February 1, 2001
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Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer by Nancy C. Unger University of North Carolina. 393 pages. $39.95.
It is said that biographers come either to love or hate their subjects, and I'm afraid that Nancy C. Unger became contemptuous of old Fighting Bob, the Wisconsin Senator and governor, who ran for President in 1924 and just happened to be the founder of this magazine.
Unger depicts La Follette as egomaniacal and hypochondriacal, an exaggerator who was stubborn, self-destructive, and often counterproductive politically. On the personal side, she shows him as weakly dependent on his wife, Belle Case La Follette, and as overbearing toward his ...