In chronicling the life and career of Albert Gore, Sr., historian Anthony J. Badger explores the successes and failures of this Tennessee politician who was in the national eye for more than thirty years and whose career illuminates the significance of race, religion, and class in the creation of the modern South.
Anthony J. Badger is Professor in American History at Northumbria University and Emeritus Paul Mellon Professor of American History at Cambridge University. He is author of several books, including FDR: The First Hundred Days and The New Deal: The Depression Years, 1933-1940.
