LA FOLLETTE, Robert Marion, 1855-1925


Courtesy U.S. Senate Historical Office

Extended Bibliography

Alexander, Holmes Moss. The Famous Five. New York: Bookmailer, 1958.

Amchan, Arthur J. The Kaiser’s Senator: Robert M. La Folette’s Alleged Disloyalty During World War I. Alexandria, VA: Amchan Publications, 1994.

Barton, Albert Olaus. La Follette’s Winning of Wisconsin. Madison: n.p., 1922.

Burgchardt, Carl R. Robert M. La Follette, Sr.: The Voice of Conscience. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991.

Cooper, John Milton, Jr. “Robert M. La Follette: Political Prophet.” Wisconsin Magazine of History 69 (Winter 1985-1986): 91-105.

Doan, Edward N. The La Follettes and theWisconsin Idea. New York: Rinehart, 1947.

Drake, Richard. The Education of an Anti-Imperialist: Robert La Follette and U.S. Expansion. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2013.

Gianneschi, Harry Ronald. “An Ideological Analysis of the Senate Wartime Addresses of Robert Marion La Follette.” Ph.D. dissertation, Bowling Green State University, 1975.

Greenbaum, Fred. Robert Marion La Follette. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1975.

Ham, F. Gerald, ed. Papers of Robert M. La Follette at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Alexandria, VA: Chadwyck-Healey, 1972. Microfilm. 161 reels and guide.

Havig, Alan R. “A Disputed Legacy: Roosevelt Progressives and the La Follette Campaign in 1924.” Mid-America 53 (January 1971): 44-64.

Hesseltine, William B. “Robert Marion La Follette and the Principles of Americanism.” Wisconsin Magazine of History 31 (March 1948): 261-67.

Johnson, John J.L. “A Rhetorical Analysis of Robert Marion La Follette as a Social Movement Leader and Presidential Aspirant, 1897-1924.” Ph.D. dissertation, Wayne State University, 1989.

Johnston, Scott D. “Robert La Follette and the Socialists: Aspects of the 1924 Presidential Campaign Re-examined.” Social Science 50 (Spring 1975): 69-77.

Kennedy, Padraic Colum. “La Follette and the Russians.” Mid-America 53 (July 1971): 190-208.

___. “La Follette’s Foreign Policy: From Imperialism to Anti-Imperialism.” Wisconsin Magazine of History 46 (Summer 1963): 287-93.

___. “La Follette’s Imperialist Flirtation.” Pacific Historical Review 29 (May 1960): 131-44.

___. “Lenroot, La Follette and the Campaign of 1906.” Wisconsin Magazine of History 42 (Spring 1959): 163-74.

Kent, Alan Edmond. “Portrait in Isolationism: The La Follettes and Foreign Policy.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1957.

La Follette, Belle C., and Fola La Follette. Robert M. La Follette. 2 vols. New York: Macmillan, 1953.

La Follette, Robert M. La Follette’s Autobiography: A Personal Narrative of Political Experiences. 1913. Reprint. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1960.

Lahman, Carroll Pollock. “Robert Marion La Follette as Public Speaker and Political Leader, 1855-1905.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1940.

Loew, Patty. “Natives, Newspapers, and ‘Fighting Bob’: Wisconsin Chippewa in the ‘Unprogressive’ Era." Journalism History 23 (Winter 1997-1998): 149-158.

Lovejoy, Allen Fraser. La Follette and the Establishment of the Direct Primary in Wisconsin, 1890-1904. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1941.

Madison, Charles A. “Robert M. La Follette: The Radical in Politics.” In American Radicals: Some Problems and Personalities, edited by Harvey Goldberg, pp. 91-110. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1957.

Manning, Eugene A. “Old Bob La Follette: Champion of the People.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1966.

Margulies, Herbert F. “The La Follette-Philipp Alliance of 1918.” Wisconsin Magazine of History 38 (Summer 1955): 248-49.

___. “La Follette, Roosevelt and the Republican Presidential Nomination of 1912.” Mid-America 58 (January 1976): 54-76.

___. “Robert M. La Follette Goes to the Senate, 1905.” Wisconsin Magazine of History 59 (Spring 1976): 214-25.

Maxwell, Robert S. “La Follette and the Election of 1900: A Half-Century Reappraisal.” Wisconsin Magazine of History 35 (Autumn 1951): 23-29, 68-71.

___. La Follette and the Rise of the Progressives in Wisconsin. 1956. Reprint. New York: Russell & Russell, 1973.

___, ed. La Follette. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1969.

Meyer, Karl Ernest. “The Politics of Loyalty: From La Follette to McCarthy in Wisconsin, 1918-1952.” Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University, 1956.

Myers, R. David. “Robert M. La Follette.” In The American Radical, edited by Mari Jo Buhle, Paul Buhle, and Harvey J. Kaye, pp. 159-66. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Sanford, Harold E. “The Political Liberalism of Robert Marion La Follette.” Ph.D. dissertation, Boston College, 1938.

Sayre, Wallace Stanley. “Robert M. La Follette, a Study in Political Methods.” Ph.D. dissertation, New York University, 1930.

Stirn, Ernest William. An Annotated Bibliography of Robert M. La Follette, the Man and His Work. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1937.

Sutton, Walter A. “Bryan, La Follette, Norris: Three Mid-Western Politicians.” Journal of the West 8 (October 1969): 613-30.

Thelan, David P. The Early Life of Robert M. La Follette, 1855-1884. Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1966.

___. Robert M. La Follette and the Insurgent Spirit. Boston: Little, Brown, 1976.

___. “Robert La Follette’s Leadership, 1891-1896: The Old and New Politics and the Dilemma of the Progressive Politician.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly 62 (July 1971): 97-109.

Tingley, Ralph R. “Podium Politics in Sioux Falls, 1924: Dawes versus La Follette.” South Dakota History 10 (Spring 1980): 119-32.

Torelle, Ellen, comp. The Political Philosophy of Robert M. La Follette as Revealed in His Speeches and Writings. 1920. Reprint. Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1975.

Unger, Nancy C. “‘I Went to Learn’: Meanings of the European Tour of Senator Robert M. La Follette, 1923." Mid-America 84 (Winter/Summer/Fall 2002): 5-25.

___. “The Burden of a Great Name: Robert M. LaFollette, Jr." Psychohistory Review 23 (Winter 1995): 167-91.

___. Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.

___. “‘I Went To Learn’: Meanings of the European Tour of Senator Robert M. La Follette, 1923." Mid-America 84:1-3 (2002): 5-25.

___. “The ‘Political Suicide’ of Robert M. La Follette: Public Disaster, Private Catharsis.” Psychohistory Review 21 (Winter 1993): 197-220.

___. “The Righteous Reformer: A Life History of Robert Marion La Follette, Sr., 1855-1925.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Southern California, 1985.

U.S. Congress. Robert M. La Follette. 69th Cong., 1925-1927. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1927.

Weisberger, Bernard A. The La Follettes of Wisconsin: Love and Politics in Progressive Ameria. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994.