Hubert Humphrey
The Conscience of the Country

This is a new biography of Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (1911-1978). The book is well written and meticulously researched. The biography appears to be unbiased. The book covers the life of HHH but primarily focuses on his political career. Offner points out that HHH had a great career, but his mistake......more

It is not too often you read a biography that significantly changes your perception of the person you are reading about. This is likely for a variety of reasons. Selection bias would be the most significant. Rarely do we read a biography of someone we don’t already have knowledge and opinions about.......more

This is a sensitively written and brilliantly analyzed portrait of a key figure in 20th century American politics. An outstanding liberal with a legislative record to match, Humphrey failed to reach the presidency despite several attempts. His initial failure to secure the party nomination in 1960 a......more

Humphrey was one of the significant figures in American politics from the 1940s through his death in the late 1970s. Like many who never achieve the presidency, his legacy gets overlooked because of this fact. This book is a good review of his life and his career, and objectively looks at the good h......more