Warren G. Magnuson and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century America

Informationen zum Autor Shelby Scates Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 of Public Interest The Great Dictator A Time to Go Coming Home: The Green Light Notes Index

Autorentext

Shelby Scates was a prize-winning journalist and columnist for International News Service, United Press International, the Associated Press, and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He is the author of War and Politics by Other Means: A Journalist's Memoir.

Klappentext

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.

Inhalt

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 of Public Interest

The Great Dictator

A Time to Go

Coming Home: The Green Light

Notes

Index