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Item Details
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WARREN G.MAGNUSON AND THE SHAPING OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICA
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| By: |
Shelby Scates |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£44.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0295976314 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780295976310 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
15 June, 1997 |
| Series: |
Emil and Kathleen Sick Lecture - Book Series in Western History and Biography |
| Pages: |
360 |
| Description: |
A biography of Magnuson from his 1905 birth to his death in Seattle in 1989. The bulk of the volume discusses Magnuson's six terms as senator from the state of Washington from 1944 to 1981. During this time Magnuson was responsible for a host of legislative accomplishments: authoring the Civil Righ |
| Synopsis: |
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 godfathering the electrification of the Pacific Northwest by pressing for Columbia and Snake River dams. He pushed federal aid to education, while holding down Pentagon budgets, and established the National Institutes of Health (and kept research funds flowing liberally) while arguing throughout the McCarthy era against U.S. isolation from China. He did much more. But he was also a boon whiskey-and-poker companion to Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, and Johnson. Shelby Scates traces Magnuson's life from his early years in the Fargo/Moorhead region of the upper Midwest to his death in Seattle in 1989 at age eighty-four. |
| US Grade: |
College Graduate Student and over |
| Illustrations: |
illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Washington Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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