Born early in the 20th century, raised in the Southern hill country bereft of electricity or indoor plumbing, enrolled at a local teacher’s college rather than the state university, elected to Congress around age 30: Sounds like the young Lyndon Johnson, doesn’t it? But it could just as well be Albert Gore Sr., the father of Vice President Al Gore—and LBJ’s precise contemporary. Yet, as Anthony Badger writes in “Albert Gore, Sr.: A Political Life,” the two men “hated each other.” Their ambitions were too similar and their temperaments too different.

Source: Wall Street Journal March 24, 2019 20:15 UTC