Soapy: A Biography of G. Mennen Williams

Thomas J. Noer

Soapy: A Biography of G. Mennen Williams
Format
Paperback
Publisher
The University of Michigan Press
Country
United States
Published
1 July 2006
Pages
456
ISBN
9780472031863

Soapy: A Biography of G. Mennen Williams

Thomas J. Noer

The first complete biography of G. Mennen
Soapy
Williams, former governor of Michigan Soapy Williams was one of the most controversial and colorful politicians in 20th-century American history. In 1948, winning a stunning upset, he became Michigan’s second Democratic governor since the Civil War and was reelected five times. Williams built an unrivaled political machine in Michigan, bringing organized labor, African Americans, and ethnic groups into a new coalition. Author Thomas Noer bases his book on materials from the Bentley Library in Ann Arbor, the John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential libraries, State Department records in Washington, and interviews with Williams’ widow and other members of the family.

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