Warren G. Magnuson and the shaping of twentieth-century America /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Scates, Shelby
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©1997.
Series:Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography.
Subjects:
Magnuson, Warren G. > (Warren Grant), > 1905-1989.
Magnuson, Warren G. > (Warren Grant), > 1905-1989
United States. > Congress. > Senate > Biography.
États-Unis. > Congress. > Senate > Biographies.
United States. > Congress. > Senate
1900-1999
Legislators > United States > Biography.
Parlementaires > États-Unis > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Political.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Legislative Branch.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
Legislators
Politics and government
United States > Politics and government > 20th century.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 20e siècle.
United States
Biographies
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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