Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-469) and index.
List of Illustrations; Prologue; Acknowledgments; A Note on Some Family Names; 1. To Wisconsin; 2. Getting Ahead; 3. Marshfield; 4. Laona; 5. A Meeting of Titans: Robert La Follette and W.D. Connor; 6. Business, Politics, and Family: 1906-1907; 7. Risky Business: 1908-1909; 8. Promising Years: 1909-1913; 9. Melvin Robert Laird; 10. Illinois versus Wisconsin: 1913-1916; 11. War: 1917-1919 ; 12. Omaha: 1919-1923 ; 13. The Return: 1924-1931; 14. Surviving Losses: 1932-1936; 15. The Divided House: 1937-1939 ; 16. Endings and Beginnings: 1940-1944.
17. Another Ending, Another Beginning: 1945-1946 18. In a Man's World: 1947-1950; 19. Regent: 1951-1959; 20. Family Matters: 1951-1959 ; 21. A Different World: 1960-1968 ; 22. The Mother, the Politician, and the Professor: 1969-1974 ; 23. Past and Present: 1975-1979; 24. Home: 1980-1982; Postscript; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index.
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