Short of the glory : the fall and redemption of Edward F. Prichard, Jr. / Tracy Campbell
- Bib ID:
- 2064991
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- Author:
- Campbell, Tracy, 1962-
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- Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c1998
- x, 334 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 081312073X
- Summary:
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Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. thought that he might one day become president. He was a protege of Felix Frankfurter and Fred Vinson - a political prodigy who held a series of important posts in the Roosevelt and Truman administrations. Whatever became of Edward F. Prichard, Jr., so young and brilliant and seemingly destined for glory? Prichard - known for his dazzling wit and photographic memory - fell victim to the hubris that had helped to make him great. In 1948, he was indicted for stuffing 254 votes in a U.S. Senate race. J. Edgar Hoover, never a fan of the young genius, made sure he was prosecuted, and so many of the members the Supreme Court were Prichard's friends that not enough justices were left to hear his appeal. So the man Roosevelt's advisors had called the boy wonder of the New Deal went to jail.
Pardoned by President Truman, Prichard spent the next twenty-five years working his way out of political exile. Gradually he became a trusted advisor to governors and legislators, though without recognition or compensation. Finally, in the 1970s and 1980s, Prichard emerged as his home state's most persuasive and eloquent voice for education reform, finally regaining the respect he had thrown away in his arrogant youth.
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- Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction: A Christmas Funeral 1
- Part I. Star Rising
- 1. The Political Education of "Sonny" Prichard 7
- 2. Banishment to Paradise 24
- 3. Harvard Law School 44
- 4. An Extended Campus 59
- 5. The Wunderkind 79
- 6. "Corrective Steps" 101
- 7. A Lukewarm Reception 113
- Part II. Star Falling
- 8. "Press Vigorously and Thoroughly" 137
- 9. Playing for Keeps 153
- 10. Ashland 171
- 11. NewTrials 184
- 12. "Wandering in the Wilderness" 201
- Part III. Star Reborn
- 13. Back in the Arena 221
- 14. "Picking up the Pieces" 239
- 15. Twilight Renaissance 252
- 16. The Final Struggle 266
- Epilogue 282
- Notes 285
- Sources 315
- Index 325
- Photosfollow page 150.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-324) and index.
- Subject:
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- Prichard, E. F. (Edward Fretwell)
- Politicians -- United States -- Biography
- Political corruption -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Educational change -- Kentucky -- History -- 20th century
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1953
- Kentucky -- Politics and government -- 1951-
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