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<p>Very little has been written about Harold Ickes, one of the most important, complex, and colorful figures of the New Deal. By any standards his public career was remarkable. For thirteen turbulent years as Interior Secretary and as head of the Public Works Administration he was an uncommonly effective official and a widely acknowledged leader of liberal reform. As the foremost conservationist of his time, he saved millions of acres of land from decimation. He was matchless, too, as a fighter for just causes, and used his formidable talent for invective and his inexhaustible supply of moral fervor to flay representatives of prejudice and self-interest, whether in the cause of Negro rights or that of the common man against economic royalists.</p> <p>Despite a long and distinguished public life, Ickes is an enigma because of his inability to control his rage, to temper his public criticism, to respond objectively to situations. At the heart of his public and private life was constant moral outrage. This astute study by a historian and a psychologist probes the sources and consequences of Ickes' abnormal combativeness.</p> <p>White and Maze uncover the psychological imperatives and

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Author

Graham White and John Maze

Publisher

Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies

Published

1985

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674372856

Category

history

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir

Rating

5 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14