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Warren G. Magnuson and the shaping of twentieth-century America /
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 Civil Rights Act, protecting Puget Sound, saving Boeing for Seattle, championing consumer protection legislation, reorganizing the railroads, and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
©1997.
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| Colección: | Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Seattle, May 24, 1989
- Fargo/Moorhead
- Seattle, 1925
- Mr. Smooth
- Depression
- Young man in a hurry
- New deal, new world, the "Soviet of Washington"
- Mr. Magnuson goes to Washington
- "Ensign" Magnuson
- Adonis from congress
- Horses, flaxseed, and dutiful son
- Commander Magnuson
- War, politics, and McGoozle
- Senator Magnuson
- The "Pol's pol," the playboy's playboy
- Cold war, monkey business
- Maggie, Scoop, and overdrafts
- The Sinner and the saint
- American prime time
- Camelot and comeback
- Triumph, Cuba, and trouble
- Bumblebees
- Civil rights: the whole load of hay falls on Maggie
- The Sixties
- Revival
- "Scoop and Maggie"
- The Prime minister of public interest
- The Great dictator
- A Time to go
- Coming home: the green light
- Notes
- Index.