Harold E. Stassen: The Life and Perennial Candidacy of the Progressive Republican

by David G. Dalin, John F. Rothmann, Alec Kirby

In 1938 Harold E. Stassen was elected governor of Minnesota at age 31, an office he resigned in 1943 to enter the United States Navy at the height of World War II. In the postwar years he helped write the charter of the United Nations and, serving in the Eisenhower administration, very nearly achieved a nuclear test ban treaty with the Soviet Union. He is famously known as a perennial candidate for the Republican Party nomination for president,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786465549
• ISBN13: 9780786465545
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.9" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher