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The Hoosier politician: officeholding and political culture in Indiana, 1896-1920.

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From: The Nation
Date: 19860503
Author:Weales, Gerald

THE HOOSIER POLITICIAN:

Officeholding and Political Culture in Indiana, 1896-1920.

By Philip R. VanderMeer. University of Illinois Press. 256 pp. $19.95.

Booth Tarkington was already a successful novelist in 1902 when he was elected to the Indiana General Assembly. Like most of the legislators between 1896 and 1920, he was an amateur politician, apparently motivated by civic responsibility, who held no prior offices, served only one term and returned to what professional politicians call civilian life. At 33, he was younger than most legislators, who tended to ...

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