Big Daddy : Jesse Unruh and the art of power politics /

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Revealing and frank, this biography tells the story of an American original, California's Big Daddy, Jesse Unruh (1922-1987), who was born into Texas sharecropper poverty, became a larger-than-life figure and a principal architect and builder of modern California. It also looks at the man who b...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Boyarsky, Bill
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2008.
Temas:
Unruh, Jesse, > 1922-1987.
Unruh, Jesse, > 1922-1987 > Influence.
Unruh, Jesse, > 1922-1987
California. > Legislature. > Assembly > Speakers > Biography.
California. > Legislature. > Assembly
Since 1900
Politicians > California > Biography.
Legislators > California > Biography.
Center parties > United States > Case studies.
Politiciens > Californie > Biographies.
Centre (Science politique) > États-Unis > Études de cas.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Political.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Legislative Branch.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Center parties
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Legislators
Orators
Politicians
Politics and government
Social conditions
California > Politics and government > 1951-
California > Social conditions > 20th century.
United States > Politics and government > 1945-1989.
United States > Social conditions > 1945-
Californie > Politique et gouvernement > 1951-
Californie > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 1945-1989.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 1945-
California
United States
Biographies
Case studies
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The death of a boss
  • The road to California
  • The GI Bill of Rights
  • Hat in the ring
  • The education of a rookie
  • Segregation and the unruh civil rights act
  • Fair housing and white backlash
  • Animal house
  • Backstabbing democrats
  • Dirty dealings and high idealism
  • A full-time legislature
  • Unruh, Robert Kennedy, and the anti-war movement
  • Unruh versus Reagan
  • The man with the money.

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