Fast & Free Shipping
Get FREE delivery in the Republic of Ireland when you spend over €10
Currently Out Of Stock
Warren G. Magnuson and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century America
Hardback
€137.94
Collect 413 Reward Points
- Currently Out Of Stock
- Book 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 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 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.
- About The Author
- 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.
- Product Details
-
- ISBN
- 9780295998022
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press, (28 July 2015)
- Number of Pages
- 403
- Weight
- 731 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 229 x 152 x 27 mm
- Series:
- See all books in this series
- Categories: