Paul M. Butler Hoosier Politician and National Political Leader

This book is a study of the political background and rise to leadership of Paul Butler, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, 1954-1960. George Roberts examines his efforts to provide a responsible political opposition to the Eisenhower Administration in a period of transition toward the New Politics. Butler wanted effective party organization from the precinct level to national party organization. Of interest to students and scholars of political science and American history.