by Henry C. Ferrell (Author)
Spanning most of the years of the one-party South, the public career of Virginian Claude A. Swanson, congressman, governor, senator, and secretary of the navy, extended from the second administration of Grover Cleveland into that of Franklin Roosevelt. His record, writes Henry C. Ferrell, Jr., in this definitive biography, is that of ""a skillful legislative diplomat and an exceedingly wise executive encompassed in the personality of a professional politician."" As a congressman, Swanson abandone
Author Biography
Henry C. Ferrell Jr. is professor of history at East Carolina University.
Number of Pages: 312
Dimensions: 0.7 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: July 15, 2014
