Hubert Humphrey has been gone for some 45 years. One can still remember hearing him, though, spouting his pet phrase "I'm as pleased as punch." How pleased, though, would Humphrey be with Sam Freedman ...

It is true that history is not generally kind to presidential losers, but the reputation of Democratic nominee Hubert Humphrey endured an especially precipitous fall with his loss to Richard Nixon in ...

During his eight years of research into the early life of Hubert Humphrey, Samuel G. Freedman concedes, he reached a point where he questioned the road he was traveling, literally and figuratively.

Though the Civil Rights Movement came to fruition in the 1950s and 1960s, one can arguably trace its roots to Hubert Humphrey's speech at the 1948 Democratic National Convention, advocating for ...

Democratic politician Hubert Humphrey was a one-time darling of American liberalism who left a deeply divided legacy. Though now arguably best known for his tenure as Lyndon Johnson's vice president, ...

But at the beginning, Humphrey vaulted into national prominence at the 1948 Democratic National Convention, where he delivered a powerful speech advocating a robust civil rights plank for the party’s ...

Hubert Humphrey experienced some of the most depressing and some of the most exhilarating moments of his political life—all within one day and in the same state, Georgia. In his deepest drive so far ...

Early in his long-shot run for president, Democratic U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips evoked one of Minnesota's most historically well-known politicians. "I believe deeply in the Democratic Party of today," ...

It feels like spring outside, but it’s only February. So if your internal clock still tells you to hunker down and read, here is good fiction ranging from a carnival to Hubert Humphrey. “The Wonders ...