Fighting bob lafollette biography of christopher
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Fighting Bob La Follette Plaque Unveiled in State Capitol
The Raging Grannies of Madison joined Wisconsin Secretary of State Doug La Follette and dozens of onlookers in the state capitol today to unveil a new plaque dedicated to La Follette’s great-grandfather, “Fighting Bob” La Follette.
Robert M. La Follette was born in Primrose Wisconsin in 1855, and was elected to the US House of Representatives, US Senate, and Governor of Wisconsin at the turn of the 20th century. A staunch Progressive, Fighting Bob ran for President as a third party candidate twice, once in 1912, and again in 1924, where he won over 16% of the popular vote. Fighting Bob died while serving as a US Senator in 1925.
Now, almost 100 years after his death, Fighting Bob is commemorated with not only a bust, but a plaque outlining his achievements and his fight for progressive politics.
Doug La Follette, who has served as Secretary of State since 1982, first got the idea to install a plaque on the bust of Fight
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Highlights from Fighting Bob Fest: Chris Hedges
Starting a Revolution
By Chris Hedges
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I have stood over the bodies, including the bodies of children, left behind by Israeli airstrikes and assaults. inom have watched mothers and fathers cradle their dead and bloodied boys and girls in their arms, convulsed bygd an indescribable grief, shrieking in pitiful cries to an indifferent universe.
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524 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 18 illus., 4 figs., appends., notes, index
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Published: December 2012 - Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-4772-5
Published: March 1999 - E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-7090-2
Published: December 2012
Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
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Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
Awards & distinctions
2000 Homer Babbidge Prize, Association for the Study of Connecticut History