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Claude Pepper and Ed Ball: Politics, Purpose, and Power Tapa dura - 2000
de Tracy E. Danese
Descripción de la solapa
The power struggle between Claude Pepper and Ed Ball in the mid-twentieth century in large part determined the future of Florida. This lively account of their interlocking careers -- both dominated by a personal quest for power, money, and purpose -- illuminates the historical role of these two forceful personalities.
Ed Ball, brother-in-law of Alfred I. duPont and trustee of the duPont empire, was at one time the single most powerful businessman in the state. Claude Pepper, a senior U.S. senator, was the state's heir to the liberal legacy of New Deal politics. By mid-century, the duPont-Ball empire controlled a major part of the Florida business and political establishment -- but not Claude Pepper.
Tracy Danese, whose law career has often brought him into close contact with Florida's political scene, describes the economic setting in Florida when Ball and Pepper arrived in the twenties and the prelude to their conflicts, and shows how their careers developed in tandem throughout the depression era and World War II and its aftermath. He discusses milestones in this story: Pepper's unopposed election in 1936, influenced by corruption in Hillsborough County politics in the 1934 senate election; conflict between Pepper and Ball over the presidential veto of a 1944 war funding measure; their acrimonious struggle over ownership of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad; the famous Florida East Coast Railway strike that led to measures that forced the duPont trust to divest itself of the largest banking chain in Florida; and their final titanic clash over the senatorial election of 1950.
With a strange blend of principled behavior and personal ambition, the men personified the ambiguousnature of politics. Ed Ball adamantly upheld what he viewed as his property rights; Pepper unabashedly sought political power. Until now, only bits and pieces of their dynamic clash have been told. The two figures still are fresh in the minds of many Floridians, and this story will be welcomed by historians, political scientists, and general readers alike.
Detalles
- Título Claude Pepper and Ed Ball: Politics, Purpose, and Power
- Autor Tracy E. Danese
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Edición 1st
- Páginas 320
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, U.S.A.
- Fecha de publicación 2000-04
- Ilustrado Sí
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780813017440 / 0813017440
- Peso 1.36 libras (0.62 kg)
- Dimensiones 9.31 x 6.32 x 1.03 pulgadas (23.65 x 16.05 x 2.62 cm)
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Temas
- Cultural Region: Deep South
- Cultural Region: South Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: Florida
- Library of Congress subjects United States, Florida
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 99035314
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Reseñas en medios
Citas
- Choice, 11/01/2000, Page 593
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