Ten years ago, I mentioned the name Chuck Percy in a college classroom only to receive, rather than nods of recognition, perplexed gazes. Another sign of a new generation gap and the ruthlessness of time. More and more, the political giants who dominated the baby boomers’ years – Paul Douglas, Everett Dirksen, James Thompson, and […]
Robert D. Sampson
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Illinois, the political battleground of 1948
This is Robert E. Hartley’s ninth book on Illinois history and politics. Battleground 1948: Truman, Stevenson, Douglas, and the Most Surprising Election in Illinois History, Robert E. Hartley, Southern Illinois University Press, 206 pp., illus., notes, bibliography and index. Given our state’s convoluted, complex, and at times outright Byzantine political history, tagging any election as […]
