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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boyarsky, Bill
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Unruh, Jesse, > 1922-1987.
Unruh, Jesse, > 1922-1987 > Influence.
California. > Legislature. > Assembly.
California. > Legislature. > Assembly > Speakers > Biography.
Social conditions.
Politics and government.
Politicians.
Orators.
Legislators.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Center parties.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Legislative Branch.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Political.
Centre (Science politique) > États-Unis > Études de cas.
Hommes politiques > Californie > Biographies.
Center parties > United States > Case studies.
Legislators > California > Biography.
Politicians > California > Biography.
United States.
California.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 1945-
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 1945-1989.
Californie > Conditions sociales > 20e siecle.
Californie > Politique et gouvernement > 1951-
United States > Social conditions > 1945-
United States > Politics and government > 1945-1989.
California > Social conditions > 20th century.
California > Politics and government > 1951-
Biographies.
Case studies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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