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

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Shelby Scates

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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 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.

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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