{"product_id":"short-of-the-glory-the-fall-and-redemption-of-edward-f-prichard-jr-9780813190969","title":"Short of the Glory: The Fall and Redemption of Edward F. Prichard Jr.","description":"\u003cp\u003eArthur Schlesinger Jr. thought that he might one day become president. He was a protege of Felix Frankfurter and Fred Vinsona political prodigy who held a series of important posts in the Roosevelt and Truman administrations. Whatever became of Edward F. Prichard  Jr.  so young and brilliant and seemingly destined for glory?  Prichard was a complex man  and his story is tragically ironic. The boy from Bourbon County  Kentucky  graduated at the top of his Princeton class and cut a wide swath at Harvard Law School. He went on to clerk in the U.S. Supreme Court and become an important figure in Roosevelts Brain Trust. Yet Prichardknown for his dazzling wit and photographic memoryfell victim to the hubris that had helped to make him great.  In 1948  he was indicted for stuffing 254 votes in a U.S. Senate race. J. Edgar Hoover  never a fan of the young genius  made sure he was prosecuted  and so many of the members of the Supreme Court were Prichards friends that not enough justices were left to hear his appeal. So the man Roosevelts advisors had called the boy wonder of the New Deal went to jail.  Prichards meteoric rise and fall is essentially a Greek tragedy set on the stage of American politics. Pardoned by President Truman  Prichard spent the next twenty-five years working his way out of political exile. Gradually he became a trusted advisor to governors and legislators  though without recognition or compensation. Finally  in the 1970s and 1980s  Prichard emerged as his home states most persuasive and eloquent voice for education reform  finally regaining the respect he had thrown away in his arrogant youth.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45646682751029,"sku":"ByrdShop_0813190967","price":25.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780813190969.jpg?v=1781677234","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/short-of-the-glory-the-fall-and-redemption-of-edward-f-prichard-jr-9780813190969","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}