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The Tiger in the Senate: The Biography of Wayne Morse

by A. Robert Smith. 458 pgs.

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Contributors:

   A. Robert Smith

Publisher:

   Doubleday

Place of Publication:

  Garden City, NY  

Publication Year:

  1962
Subjects:   Morse, Wayne L--(Wayne Lyman),--1900-1974--Biography, Legislators--United States--Biography
Table of contents
CONTENTS
Preface 13
PART ONE: THE MAN OF LEGEND AND MYSTERY
Chapter 1 -- The Legend 19
Everyman's Senator 20
Early Days 22
The Swift Rise 24
The Great Dissent 25
The Scrapper 28
Chapter 2 -- The Oratorical Tiger 31
Lessons from La Follette 32
Homecoming 38
History Smiles 45
Lady Luce 48
Chapter 3 -- Man of Letters 55
Too Much Horse Liniment 56
The Curmudgeon 58
Brotherly Critics 67
Chapter 4 -- The Driving Force 71
The Conflict 71
To Be King 74
The Mystery 81
PART TWO: THE LAST SON OF THE WILD JACKASS
Chapter 5 -- The Conservative Hour 85
What Kind of Republican? 86
Muted Liberal 91
Middle of the Roader 93
Anti-New Dealer 100
Chapter 6 -- The Senator and the Leaders 107
Following Vandenberg 108
Defying Taft 112
Taft-Hartley 117
Deadwood Dave 120
Chapter 7 -- The Senator and the Presidents 125
FDR 127
HST 131
Salem Rebuff 135
The Crossroad 137
Bolting the G.O.P. 145
Ike 150
Chapter 8 -- The Inner Circle 161
Protecting His Cubs 162
Midge 166
The Horse Trader 170
Devoted Women 173
The Poor Working Girls 176
Chapter 9 -- A Majority of One 179
Bumped from Committees 179
Smoking Mad at the Press 187
Chapter 10 -- Political Wedding Bells 203
Liberal Roots 203
Enticement 209
Oregon's Other Senator 211
For Better or for Worse 218
Chapter 11 -- The Constitutional Liberal 221
Old Soldiers Never Die 223
The Steel Seizure 227
Textbook Lawyer 232
PART THREE: A MAVERICK'S UPS AND DOWNS
Chapter 12 -- The Morse Code 239
No Half a Loaf 240
Morse Formula 243
Deficit Trouble 250
Moonlighting 256
Chapter 13 -- Thunder from the Right 261
Resisting McCarthyism 262
Duke 266
Censure Heroes 272
Wire Tapping 275
Chapter 14 -- The Noble Filibuster 281
Confederate Retreat 283
Necessity and Survival 286
Atomic Power 289
Meeting Mr. K 291
Chapter 15 -- Marching into Hells Canyon 297
Historic Giveaways 299
Ideological Giveaways 302
Defeated on Two Fronts 304
Arm-twisting at the White House 307
Chapter 16 -- The Oregon Uprising 313
Morse vs. McKay 313
Emancipating the Indians 320
Al Sarena and Big Meadows 322
Time for a Change 328
Chapter 17 -- Neuberger 333
The Cribbing Case 336
Mr. Conservationist 339
Seeds of Disunion 341
End of the Honeymoon 346
Self-reform 350
Chapter 18 -- Love Thine Enemies 355
Morse-Neuberger Feud 356
Cancer 368
The Hatfield Assault 370
"The Other Fellow May Be Right" 381
Maurine 384
Everyman's Burden--Self-centeredness 387
Chapter 19 -- "I Have No Illusions" 393
"A Machiavellian Plot" 395
"Phony Liberals" 400
The Children of God 403
The Hypothesis 406
PART FOUR: NEW FRONTIERS
Chapter 20 -- Up from the Slough of Despond 413
The Tragedy of Hubris 414
"Keep Him Busy" 416
South of the Border 417
The UN 420
Chapter 21 -- JFK 427
Labor Reform 428
The Catholic Issue 431
Post-Election Relations 440
". . . He Has to Deal with Me." 442
Chapter 22 -- The Frontier of the Spirit 451
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