In this study of Miles Poindexter, Insurgent Republican turned conservative, Howard W. Allen reaches beyond the traditional bounds of biography to present a history of the United States Congress during the Progressive era and the early years after World War I. A congressman (1909-13)and a senator (1913-23), Miles Poindexter of Washington State was an outspoken, progressive reformer before World War I. He struggled to protect "the people"...