A very private public citizen : the life of Grenville Clark

A very private public citizen : the life of Grenville Clark / Nancy Peterson Hill.

Grenville Clark was born to wealth and privilege in Manhattan, where his maternal grandfather, LeGrand Bouton Cannon, was an industry titan, retired Civil War colonel, and personal friend of Abraham Lincoln. Clark grew up on a first-name basis with both Presidents Roosevelt, and his close friends in...

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Main Author: Hill, Nancy Peterson (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Clark, Grenville, > 1882-1967.
Clark, Grenville, > 1882-1967
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Ninth-generation Manhattanite
  • Life on the street
  • Wall Street
  • Domestication : Clark the family man
  • Public service provocateur : the Plattsburg camps
  • Wartime : building on Plattsburg
  • Suburbia, breakdown, and recovery
  • Full speed ahead
  • Taking on the president : Grenville Clark, Franklin Roosevelt, and the 1937 court-packing battle
  • Defending rabble-rousers
  • Preparedness redux : the draft, World War II, War Department service
  • Retreat to Dublin : organizing for peace
  • Resisting cold warriors, writing for peace, defending academic freedom
  • Uneasy peace
  • the 1950s
  • Sprint to the finish : the 1960s
  • Legacy, lessons, relevance
  • Postscript : final words from the source.

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