AMERICAN DREAMER: A Life of Henry A. Wallace.(Review)

From: Washington Monthly | Date: May 1, 2000| Author: Roberts, Chalmers M. | Copyright information

AMERICAN DREAMER: A Life of Henry A. Wallace By John C. Culver and John Hyde Norton, $35.00

THIS IS A MIGHTY BIG (600 PAGE) FIRST-RATE biography, written with fervor but told in the calm of long-ago history (Wallace died nearly 35 years ago) about one of the most intriguing almost-but-not-quite characters in America's twentieth century.

Who was Henry Agard Wallace? Son of a Republican secretary of agriculture, he was an Iowa hybrid corn breeder (who made lots ...

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