Senate, where, having been too brash, Humphrey spent a year in exile before finding a foothold, domestically as a New Deal economic liberal and internationally as a “Wilsonian and Cold War realist” (79). After tracking back to recount Humphrey’s political initiation by a father who was both druggist and state legislator, the story gets quickly to the U.S. Offner starts at the Democratic convention in 1948, when the ambitious political science professor turned Minneapolis mayor gave a speech that converted the distant possibility that the party would support a civil rights plank into a sure thing. The last significant academic consideration of Humphrey was written by Carl Solberg in 1984: Offner’s Hubert Humphrey: The Conscience of the Country benefits from new sources and three decades of scholarship. Offner writes the biography of the man whose fingerprints are all over the liberal legislative landmarks of the era.
Instead of undertaking a general history of the postwar years, therefore, Arnold A. When it was over the audience rose as one in a standing ovation for the director, Mick Caouette, who worked for years to bring about one of the most moving, revealing and honest films you will ever see about American politics.Hubert Humphrey disappeared from public memory all too soon. To take this long poignant event-driven life and reduce it to a compelling two hours is a work of art. This is a dramatic and gripping a story, one audiences will not soon forget. The audience didn’t want to leave, and the conversation continued well into the evening: about the role of government, the clash of principle and compromise, and what has to happen to bring about the bi-partisan collaboration that enables democracy to work.
It is an important and fresh exploration of American history. It is not only a true study of Humphrey - warts and all - but also a look at the era, a story whose relevance for our time is remarkable. The film resonates as if it were about the morning’s headlines. I knew Hubert Humphrey well and lived through many of the events that Caouette brings to life again, including the momentous enactment of civil rights legislation, the Vietnam debacle, and the violence that shook the streets of Chicago in l968. It is a powerful film about arguably the most important United States Senator of the 20th century whose great personal courage shaped the world we live in. HUMPHREY: THE ART OF THE POSSIBLE during the premiere in Minneapolis.
Last evening I was among more than a thousand people who watched, laughed, gasped and wept at Mick Caouette’s HUBERT H.
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