Citizen Rauh
An American Liberal's Life in Law and Politics
Publication Year: 2010
Published by: University of Michigan Press
Cover
Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
Contents
Prologue
Download PDF (152.9 KB)
pp. 1-7
At the traditional Capitol Hill luncheon following his swearing in on January 20, 2009, President Barack Obama was approached by eleven-term Georgia congressman John Lewis...
1. The Education of Joe Rauh: Race
Download PDF (182.0 KB)
pp. 8-17
Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal may have been, as Peter Irons once wrote, “a lawyer’s deal,” but it was also “an outsider’s deal” that extended recognition and power to many Americans...
2. The Education of Joe Rauh: Law and Politics
Download PDF (202.6 KB)
pp. 18-27
As patriarch of the Rauh household, Joseph Sr. voted the straight Republican Party ticket in national, state, and local elections. He marched for William McKinley against William Jennings...
3. New Dealer
Download PDF (232.7 KB)
pp. 28-42
George Peek, the crusty first chief of the New Deal’s Agricultural Adjustment Administration, called them “a plague of young lawyers . . . young men with their hair ablaze,” who descended...
4. “Young Whippersnapper”
Download PDF (221.4 KB)
pp. 43-56
Cardozo’s slow, painful death in 1937–38 mirrored the fate of the New Deal and Roosevelt’s wounded presidency. Except for a few procedural reforms, the Senate killed FDR’s judicial...
5. Joe, Prich, and Phil
Download PDF (185.9 KB)
pp. 57-66
Joe Rauh, twenty-nine in 1940, married with a young son, was the old man of the trio. Edward Prichard Jr., five years younger, tipped the scales at a hefty 250 pounds. A native of Kentucky...
6. New Dealer at War
Download PDF (195.7 KB)
pp. 67-77
On Sunday afternoon, December 7, 1941, Joe Rauh and Phil Graham stood on the corner of Virginia Avenue and Twenty-second Street waiting for a traffic light to change...
7. Liberal Anticommunist
Download PDF (207.4 KB)
pp. 78-89
Lt. Colonel Joe Rauh came home from the Pacific War with a chest full of medals, but without a clear plan for his future. His uncertainty mirrored America’s transition from war to peace...
8. Sympathetic Associations
Download PDF (254.0 KB)
pp. 90-106
James Kutcher lost both legs at San Pietro, Italy, fighting for his country. After the war, he earned $42 a week as a clerk in the Newark of‹ce of the Veterans Administration...
9. Naming Names
Download PDF (229.0 KB)
pp. 107-120
Lillian Hellman refused to talk about other people’s politics or activities. But the thought of going to jail terri‹ed her. Dashiell Hammett, her longtime companion and lover, had barely...
10. Reuther and Randolph
Download PDF (207.9 KB)
pp. 121-132
Walter Reuther’s enemies branded him “the most dangerous man in Detroit” and “a more dangerous menace than Sputnik or anything Soviet Russia might do to America...
11. HHH, JFK, and LBJ
Download PDF (228.5 KB)
pp. 133-146
Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Lyndon Baines Johnson, and John Fitzgerald Kennedy, each an heir to the political house FDR built, played critical roles in Rauh’s efforts to redefine the shape...
12. A Liberal in Camelot
Download PDF (203.9 KB)
pp. 147-158
In the summer of Kennedy’s nomination, William Grif‹n and four friends walked boldly onto the grounds of the Glen Echo Amusement Park in Montgomery County, Maryland...
Illustrations
13. Freedom’s Party
Download PDF (243.9 KB)
pp. 159-174
Like two wary boxers, they had circled each other for years, often landing sharp verbal blows. Lyndon Johnson regarded Joe Rauh as a shrill, dogmatic critic of everything...
14. Vietnam and the Liberal Crisis
Download PDF (184.2 KB)
pp. 175-184
Rauh knew Lyndon Johnson would win and win big, but he also feared that his victory might prove to be a curse, not a blessing. On the eve of the Democrats’ greatest electoral sweep...
15. 1968
Download PDF (183.7 KB)
pp. 185-194
They were an odd couple in American politics, despite shared revulsion against the Vietnam War, distrust of Lyndon Johnson, and a desire to channel the growing antiwar fury...
16. Jock and the Miners
Download PDF (243.6 KB)
pp. 195-210
Shortly before his Salt Lake City speech on Vietnam in September 1968, Vice President Humphrey appeared at the forty-fifth annual convention of the United Mine Workers...
17. Union Democracy
Download PDF (211.4 KB)
pp. 211-223
In twenty years of practice he had become accustomed to phone calls from strangers and unannounced visitors to his office, most of whom brought him tales of legal woe...
18. Cardozo’s Seat
Download PDF (239.0 KB)
pp. 224-238
William Cushing, nominated by George Washington, first held the seat in 1789. Joseph Story occupied it on John Marshall’s Court. Benjamin Curtis, who dissented...
19. Saving the Court
Download PDF (227.7 KB)
pp. 239-252
Judge Robert Bork probably saved Joe Rauh’s life. President Reagan’s nomination of the former Yale law professor to the Supreme Court in the summer of 1987 rekindled Rauh’s spirit...
20. The Liberal in Conservative Times
Download PDF (220.0 KB)
pp. 253-266
Rauh had been there before. He had been a liberal in other conservative times. McCarthy once terrorized the Senate. Fred Vinson had led the Supreme Court. Southern racists...
21. Closing Argument
Download PDF (196.0 KB)
pp. 267-278
By 1992 he could not display them all—the plaques, the parchment scrolls, the medallions—tributes to the man some called “the personal embodiment of American liberalism,” or “the liberals...
Notes
Download PDF (355.2 KB)
pp. 279-310
Selected Bibliography
Download PDF (113.1 KB)
pp. 311-316
Index
Download PDF (177.0 KB)
pp. 317-329
E-ISBN-13: 9780472024155
Print-ISBN-13: 9780472034796
Page Count: 352
Publication Year: 2010
