RIGHTEOUS PILGRIM; The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes <i> By T. H. Watkins (Henry Holt: $35; 1,024 pp.) </i> - Los Angeles Times

RIGHTEOUS PILGRIM; The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes <i> By T. H. Watkins (Henry Holt: $35; 1,024 pp.) </i>

By Ronald Brownstein

Sept. 30, 1990 12 AM PT

“As Watkins demonstrates in this rewarding and illuminating work, Ickes had no shortage of ego--but his real fuel was conviction, burning at an octane hardly ever seen in Washington any more.”