Volume 1, Number 12 · February 6, 1964
A Progressive Hero
By Richard Hofstadter
George W. Norris: The Making of a Progressive, 1861-1912
by Richard Lowitt
Syracuse, 341 pp., $7.95
For my generation, coming of age politically in the 1930s, Senator George W. Norris was unquestionably the hero in the Senate, doubtless with reason. He stood for all the good causes—consistently, discriminatingly, and without regard to partisan affiliation. He showed a kind of dogged integrity that was all but irresistible, and in his austere passion for the general welfare he seemed to represent the best in American progressivism.
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