with a series of articles for Plain Talk magazine which described the corruption wrought by Prohibition on American cities such as Washington, D.C., Boston and Minneapolis. When Congress held its first ever hearings on the efficacy of Prohibition in February 1930, Liggett was the first witness called to testify, for the simple reason that he was the most knowledgable person in America on the subject of how the national experiment in Prohibition was not working. For this series of articles, Walter Liggett was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1931. During the 1932 Presidential election, Liggett published a negative biography of Herbert Hoover, The Rise of Herbert Hoover. Although the book lacked an Index, it remains probably the best critical, detailed biography of Herbert Hoover. Walter Liggett's interactions with Herbert Hoover dated back to the Russian famine of 1921 when, as head of a relief organization in tandem with Ludwig Martens, an actual Soviet Agent, he was investigated for possible Soviet ties by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Hoover's behest as Secretary of Commerce. Before he returned to Minnesota and the polemical battle that ended his life, the literary output of Walter Liggett was simply enormous. He wrote scores upon scores of articles in newspapers and magazines as well as four books. His literary style was mid-way between the classical American Prose of Mark Twain and the lean, mean 'Modern' journalism of Ernest Hemingway. Unfortunately for posterity, most of his literary output was printed on pulp paper, and very little of it has been digitized. Besides his biography of Herbert Hoover, Liggett wrote several novels along the lines of his first literary hero, Jack London. They are "The River Riders", about the Timber Interests in Northern Minnesota; "Pioneers of Justice", about the North-West Canadian Mounties; and "The Frozen Frontier" based on his own experiences in Alaska at the end of the Gold Rush. Crusade Floyd B. Olson had been elected governor of Minnesota on the Farmer-Labor Ticket in 1932, while Liggett was comfortably writing novels in an easy chair living with his family in a flat at Kew Gardens in Queens. In 1933 Walter Liggett returned to his home state of Minnesota with his wife Edith Fleischer Liggett, and his two children, William Wallace Liggett, and Marda Molyneux Liggett. His intention was to engage in partisan journalism, to help build the Farmer-Labor Party of Minnesota into a viable third