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 | | Arthur J. Goldberg: New Deal Liberal by David Stebenne ISBN-10: 9780195071054 ISBN-10: 0-19-507105-0 ISBN-13: 9780195071054 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-507105-4 Hardcover 1996-05-30 Oxford University Press, USA Find Lowest Price |
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Amazon.com Arthur Goldberg is perhaps best known as the Supreme Court Justice who, at the behest of President Lyndon Johnson, stepped aside to become Ambassador to the United Nations so that Johnson could appoint his pal Abe Fortas to the high court. David Stebenne's political biography, however, focuses on the period from 1948 to 1961, a time when organized labor's power and prosperity were at their peak and Goldberg was general counsel for the United Steelworkers of America. Stebenne sees, even in those years, the beginning of big labor's decline and the end of the postwar New Deal consensus. | ||
Product Description This book is the first biography ever written of Arthur J. Goldberg, the former labor lawyer, Secretary of Labor under Kennedy, and Supreme Court justice (which post he resigned at the request of Lyndon Johnson to become U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations), who played a leading role in American political life from World War II until the end of the 1960s. Goldberg, who never wrote memoirs himself, shared his thoughts about his life and work with Stebenne in a series of conversations, which took place occasionally from the fall of 1981 through to Goldberg's death in 1990. He also allowed Stebenne access to his papers, including those held under seal in presidential libraries and at the Library of Congress. Based upon these unique sources and written to be accessible to a wide audience, Arthur J. Goldberg is both the story of a leading American liberal and a history of modern American liberalism. | ||