| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.2

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Book Review

Senator Albert Gore Sr.: Tennessee Maverick. By Kyle Longley. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. xviii, 350 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8071-2980-1.)
Kyle Longley has written a fine biography of an independent-minded southerner who had an enormous impact on American foreign and domestic policies. Albert Gore, who joined the U.S. House of Representatives in 1939 and moved over to the Senate in 1953, supported a wide array of important issues from the New Deal through the Great Society while maintaining a fierce independence. His autonomy often proved unpopular among his Tennessee constituents, his party's leadership, and several presidents.	1
Many will remember Gore's opposition to American involvement in Vietnam while he was serving on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Longley details Gore's foreign policy record and traces the evolution of his thinking about Cold War strategy. While Gore remained an ardent cold warrior, he "believed that the United States could not support authoritarian regimes and maintain its moral leadership in the international community" (p. 152).	. . .

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