Testing the limits : George Armistead Smathers and Cold War America
A Floridian who served as a U.S. senator from 1950 to 1968, George Armistead Smathers is generally regarded as a playboy politician who wasted his opportunities to achieve legal and political brilliance, abandoning his constituency to represent business, industry, and other wealthy interests in Florida. This detailed chronicle of Smather's life and career reveals that his reputation was sensationalized and largely undeserved
Print Book, English, ©1999
University of Georgia Press, Athens, ©1999