Newton at Home member Arnie Offner has been a professor of History at Syracuse and Boston universities as well as Lafayette College in Pennsylvania. As an admirer of the New Deal, Arnie was drawn to Hubert Humphrey as one of the mid-20th century’s strongest advocates of the Roosevelt-Truman liberal tradition. In spite of Humphrey’s remarkable legacy of accomplishment, he has been largely forgotten. His book, Hubert Humphrey: The Conscience of the Country seeks to restore the longtime U.S. senator, vice president, and 1968 presidential nominee to his rightful place as one of the most important American statesmen of the mid-20th century.