An edition of Warren G. Magnuson and the shaping of twentieth-century America (1997)

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

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An edition of Warren G. Magnuson and the shaping of twentieth-century America (1997)

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 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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English
Pages
360

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Biography Legislators Politics and government United States United States. Congress. Senate Legislators, united states United states, congress, senate, biography United states, politics and government, 20th century United states, history, 20th century

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Warren Grant Magnuson (1905-)

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United States

Times

20th century
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1997, University of Washington Press
in English
Cover of: Warren G. Magnuson and the shaping of twentieth-century America
Warren G. Magnuson and the shaping of twentieth-century America
1997, University of Washington Press
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Seattle
Series
The Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
328.73/092, B
Library of Congress
E840.8.M343 S33 1997, E840.8.M343S33 1997

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x, 360 p. :
Number of pages
360

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL678050M
Internet Archive
warrengmagnusons0000scat
ISBN 10
0295976314
LCCN
97024392
OCLC/WorldCat
37109205
LibraryThing
318659
Goodreads
428168

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Work ID
OL2686882W

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