Warren G. Magnuson and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century America
by 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 1964 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 for federal aid to education, kept Pentagon budgets down, and established show more the National Institutes of Health while arguing throughout the McCarthy era against U.S. isolation from China. He was also a whiskey-and-poker companion to Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, and Johnson. show lessTags
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- Warren G. Magnuson and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century America
- Original publication date
- 1997
- People/Characters
- Warren G. Magnuson
- Important places
- Washington, USA
- Dedication
- To Jermaine Magnuson and the "Bumblebees" -
keepers of the flame, transmitters of the lamp - First words
- (Preface) To the casual observer, Senator Warren Magnuson dropped a lot of false leads about his character and competency in the last twenty years of his forty-nine-year political career.
The funeral mourners went down from the grand Episcopalian cathedral in Seattle to the northeast side of Capitol Hill, where the wake was arranged in a large mansion smelling of May blossoms. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)And he had done it all with pleasure.
- Blurbers
- Packard, George R
- Original language
- English
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- Nonfiction, Politics and Government, Biography & Memoir, History, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 328.73 — Society, government, & culture Political science U.S. Congress - Legislation & Legislative Process North America United States
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- E840.8 .M343 .S33 — History of the United States United States Later twentieth century, 1961-2000 Biography (General)
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