CONTENTS
Acknowledgments, xi
Introduction:
Dull Tools, 1
1 Beginnings:
Oh, My Idolized Father, 7
2 Civil Wars:
My Name Is La Follette, 20
3 The University Years:
Training for the Duties of Citizenship, 31
4 Belle Case La Follette:
Woman?s Victory, Woman?s Tragedy, 47
5 La Follette and the Law:
Everything Is Not Enough , 69
6 Congressman La Follette:
So Good a Fellow Even His Enemies Like Him, 85
7 Citizen La Follette:
Forced into the Fight, 98
8 Governor La Follette and the Wisconsin Idea:
Wisconsin Is a Happier and Better State to Live In, 120
9 Senator La Follette:
The Bogey-Man of the Senate, 139
10 The Burdens of a Great Name:
You Have Set an Almost Unattainable Goal for Us, 153
11 No Longer the Lonely Man of the Senate:
The Coming of a Ne w Order of Things , 180
12 Incident in Philadelphia:
La Follette?s Political Suicide, 200
13 No Surrender:
One Hardly Knows Whether to Pity La Follette or Admire His Bravery, 221
14 World War I:
A Little Group of Willful Men, 239
15 Resurrection:
Time and Events Are Bringing Things Your Way at Last, 263
16 Final Battles:
I Want to Die . . . with My Boots On, 281
Epilogue:
A Challenge to Youth in America Down All the Future Years, 305
Notes, 311
Bibliography, 353
Index, 371
ILLUSTRATIONS
Image identified as Josiah La Follette, 11
La Follette family portrait, 1858, 13
Bob La Follette, age nine, 28
La Follette captivates a crowd, 39
?Little Lion of the Northwest,? 44
Belle Case La Follette, 1881, 52
Belle La Follette on the stump for woman suffrage, 65
Belle and Bob La Follette in 1925, 67
Dane County?s district attorney, 75
Women endorse La Follette, 89
Congressman La Follette, 1887, 92
Campaigning country-style, 1897, 111
Whistle-stop campaign of 1900, 118
Governor La Follette, 1904, 132
Senator La Follette, 1906, 141
The La Follette family, 1910, 157
La Follette children at statue unveiling, 1929, 163
Passing the torch to Robert Jr., 1924, 174
Senator Robert M. La Follette Jr., 176
The Roosevelt?La Follette coalition that wasn?t, 181
On the grandstand with Taft, 1909, 187
La Follette, 1911, 196
?Breakdown,? 1912, 210
GOP tea party, 212
Senator in search of a cause, 1917, 237
La Follette as traitor, 248
The family during the war, 260
La Follette, 1922, 279
In the USSR, 1923, 284
La Follette?s progressive candidacy, 1924, 287
La Follette recorded on sound film, 294
La Follette at Yankee Stadium, 295
Death of a dream, 298
No surrender, 300
Funeral procession, 306
La Follette?s legacy, 309