Gather Dubious Alliance: The Making Of Minnesota's Dfl Party Drafted By John Earl Haynes Textbook

is known as a Cold War traditionalist, pretty unsympathetic to the American left, That being said, this book is invaluable in exploring the deep tensions that were inherent in the relationship between Minnesota's FarmerLabor Party and its Democrats, and does a fantastic job of exploring the highly contingent nature of theirunion in the DemocratFarmerLabor Party.
He really does make a credible case that it was, in fact, a dubious alliance from the first, and does a solid job of developing the seeming cynicism of left FarmerLabor leaders.
To paraphrase Lincoln, the DFL could not endure halfleftist and halfliberalunsurprisingly in postwar America, it became liberal, Gives crucial context to Jennifer Delton's "Making Minnesota Liberal, " John Earl Haynes, Dubious Alliance The Making of

Minnesota's DFL Party
, The dubious alliance refers to the coalition between the communists and liberalsthis became the Democratic FarmerLabor party
, This dissolved in the's but had implications for liberals until
Very academic, but informative, Prose a bit dense. Dubious Alliance was first published in, Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make longunavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions,

The formation of the DemocraticFarmerLabor party of Minnesota took place in a context of intense factional struggle that lasted from the death of Governor Floyd B.
Olson into the election of Hubert Humphrey to the U, S. Senate in. Dubious Alliance, 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 issueschief among them, the origins of Cold War liberalism that matter far beyond the boundaries of a single state.


John Haynes follows the struggle from its inception to the postwar battle within the new DFL between Popular Front adherents and antiCommunist 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 politicsOrville Freeman, Eugene McCarthy, Walter Mondale, Donald Fraserdid not seriously question Cold War foreign policy till well into the Vietnam era.


Thorough and dispassionate, this book will help today's readers better understand the DFL's birth and the struggle that surrounded itcomplex events long obscured by Cold War fears and political mythmaking.


John Earl Haynes is a historian by traininghe earned his Ph, D. at the University of Minnesotaand 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, John Earl Haynes was Modern Political Historian, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, for twenty five years, .