"Hubert Humphrey: The Conscience of the Country," by part-time Becket resident Arnold A. Offner, is an insightful and revelatory biography of "one of the great liberal leaders of post-war American ...

Hubert Humphrey has been gone for some 45 years. One can still remember hearing him, though, spouting his pet phrase "I'm as pleased as punch." How pleased, though, would Humphrey be with Sam Freedman ...

When I was asked to review “True Believer,” my first reaction was: “But I just read another Hubert H. Humphrey book.” Samuel Freedman’s excellent “Into the Bright Sunshine” should be required reading ...

Hubert Humphrey: The Conscience of the Country, Arnold A. Offner, Yale University Press, 512 pages Was the Cold War liberal Hubert Humphrey the “conscience of the country,” as a mostly admiring new ...

Senator Hubert Humphrey and President Jimmy Carter (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, unknown date and author) On the evening of Aug. 29, 1968, Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, a ...

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Fifty years ago today, Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey delivered a stump speech at the state Democratic Party convention in Utah. Although not particularly newsworthy, even at the time, reading it ...

Though the Civil Rights Movement came to fruition in the 1950s and 1960s, one can arguably trace its roots to Hubert Humphrey's speech at the 1948 Democratic National Convention, advocating for ...

I used to hate Hubert Humphrey. Fifty years ago, the only part of this once-renowned liberal’s career that mattered to me was his unflinching support for the despicable war in Vietnam. In late August ...