Idaho Matters

(National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress))Writer Marc Johnson's new book, “Political Hell-Raiser: The Life and Times of Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana,” paints a picture of an irascible politician who supported FDR but was staunchly against intervening in WWII, until December 7, 1941. He was a pro-labor advocate who took on Montana's copper barons and was talked about as a potential presidential candidate in 1940. Johnson joins Idaho Matters to tell the story of the man who called himself "The Yankee from the West."