Book Talk: Political Hell-Raiser: The Life and Times of Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana by Marc Johnson

A New Deal Democrat and lifelong opponent of concentrated power, Burton K. Wheeler was one of the most powerful politicians Montana ever produced. He came of political age amid antiwar and labor unrest in Butte, during World War I, battling Montana’s powerful economic interests and championing farmers and miners as a crusading United States attorney. Wheeler went on to become one of the most influential, and controversial, members of the United States Senate during three of the most eventful decades in American history. In Political Hell-Raiser, Marc Johnson tells the full story of Burton K. Wheeler, establishing the place and importance of this principled hell-raiser in American political history. This talk will not be recorded.