Dubious Alliance

<div> <p><i>Dubious Alliance</i> was first published in 1984. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.</p> <p>The formation of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party of Minnesota took place in a context of intense factional struggle that lasted from the death of Governor Floyd B. Olson in 1936 to the election of Hubert Humphrey to the U.S. Senate in 1948. <i>Dubious Alliance</i> the first full account of this critical chapter in the state's political history has wider significance not only because many of the leading figures in the story have played a role in national politics but also because it deals with issues-chief among them the origins of Cold War liberalism- that matter far beyond the boundaries of a single state.</p> <p>John Haynes follows the struggle from its inception to the postwar battle within the new DFL between Popular Front adherents and anti-Communist liberals led by Minneapolis Mayor Hubert Humphrey. He makes clear that the struggle with the Popular Front was the formative political experience of Humphrey's generation; those who fought with him and who became active in national politics-Orville Freeman Eugene McCarthy Walter Mondale Donald Fraser-did not seriously question Cold War foreign policy till well into the Vietnam era.</p> <p>Thorough and dispassionate this book will help today's readers better understand the DFL's birth and the struggle that surrounded it-complex events long obscured by Cold War fears and political myth-making.</p> <p>John Earl Haynes is a historian by training-he earned his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota-and also a specialist in tax policy. He was an adviser to Governor Wendell Anderson and later served as a congressional aide to Anderson and to Representative Martin Sabo. Haynes is now Director of Tax and Credit Analysis for the state of Minnesota.</p> </div>