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Warren G. Magnuson and the shaping of twentieth-century America / Shelby Scates.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scates, Shelby.
- Series:
- Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography.
- The Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Magnuson, Warren G. (Warren Grant), 1905-1989.
- Magnuson, Warren G.
- United States. Congress. Senate--Biography.
- United States.
- Legislators--United States--Biography.
- Legislators.
- United States--Politics and government--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (403 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, c1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Warren G. Magnuson served as U.S. senator from the state of Washington for six terms. The sheer sweep of his accomplishments is astonishing: authoring the 1964 Civil Rights Act, protecting Puget Sound, saving Boeing for Seattle, championing consumer protection legislation, reorganizing the railroads, and godfathering the electrification of the Pacific Northwest by pressing for Columbia and Snake River dams. He pushed for federal aid to education, kept Pentagon budgets down, and established the National Institutes of Health while arguing throughout the McCarthy era against U.S. isolation from China. He was also a whiskey-and-poker companion to Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, and Johnson.
- Contents:
- Cover
- THE EMIL AND KATHLEEN SICK LECTURE-BOOK SERIES IN WESTERN HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Seattle, May 24, 1989
- 2 Fargo/Moorhead
- 3 Seattle, 1925
- 4 Mr. Smooth
- 5 Depression
- 6 Young Man in a Hurry
- 7 New Deal, New World, the "Soviet of Washington
- 8 Mr. Magnuson Goes to Washington
- 9 "Ensign" Magnuson
- 10 Adonis from Congress
- 11 Horses, Flaxseed, and Dutiful Son
- 12 Commander Magnuson
- 13 War, Politics, and McGoozle
- 14 Senator Magnuson
- 15 The "Pol's Pol," the Playboy's Playboy
- 16 Cold War, Monkey Business
- 17 Maggie, Scoop, and Overdrafts
- 18 The Sinner and the Saint
- 19 American Prime Time
- 20 Camelot and Comeback
- 21 Triumph, Cuba, and Trouble
- 22 Bumblebees
- 23 Civil Rights: The Whole Load of Hay Falls on Maggie
- 24 The Sixties
- 25 Revival
- 26 "Scoop and Maggie
- 27 The Prime of Public Interest
- 28 The Great Dietator
- 29 A Time to Go
- 30 Coming Home: The Green Light
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780295802213
- 0295802219
- 9780295980577
- 0295980575
- OCLC:
- 45730621
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