![]() ![]() ![]() The work was to be titled All Honorable Men. It was a great pity that his study of Louisiana politician Huey Long, New York planning official Robert Moses, anti-Mafia senator Estes Kefauver and Mayor Richard J Daley of Chicago was never published. ![]() Hugh also understood the importance of second-order politicians who wielded such local power in the federal system. ![]() In a sympathetic, but not uncritical, study, he captured an essential truth of Kennedy’s learning on the job as president: no intellectual but “a quick study”. Kennedy (1996) was his underappreciated later biography of the president of the time, John F Kennedy, for the Longman’s Profiles in Power series. Hugh Brogan completed his greatest research task, Alexis de Tocqueville: Prophet of Democracy in the Age of Revolution (2006), only once he had retired. Portrait of Alexis de Tocqueville by Theodore Chasseriau. ![]()
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