
Little Giant
The Life and Times of Speaker Carl Albert
University of Oklahoma Press
Published on 30. September 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-0-8061-3200-6 (ISBN)
Description
At age six, Carl Albert knew he wanted to serve in the United States Congress. In 1947 he realized his dream when he was elected to serve in the House of Representatives alongside John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon. In Little Giant, Albert relates the story of his life in Oklahoma and his road to Congress, where after eight years of service he joined its leadership and shaped the legislation known as Kennedy's New Frontier and Johnson's Great Society. In 1971 he began his own Speakership; six years later, when it ended, Congress had been reshaped and had weathered the constitutional crisis of Richard Nixon's ""Imperial Presidency.""
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oklahoma
United States
Illustrations
48 black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
650 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8061-3200-6 (9780806132006)
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Persons
Danney Goble (1946-2007) was Professor of Letters at the University of Oklahoma and the award-winning author or coauthor of eight books about Oklahoma and Oklahomans.