Boss Simon: Joseph Simon: The First Jewish Republican Senator

by Richard Simon

Political devil. The Judas Iscariot of Oregon politics. Little Napoleon. Those are among the terms used to describe Joseph Simon, the nation's first Jewish Republican senator. Oregon's Boss Simon was a machine politician who hobnobbed with U.S. presidents. But he had an ugly falling out with Teddy Roosevelt, accusing the president of discriminating against him because he was Jewish. The author had heard about his famous relative. But no one in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1483492087
• ISBN13: 9781483492087
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Lulu Publishing Services
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"