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

By Shelby Scates

Book information

Publisher
University of Washington Press
Year
2012
ISBN
9780295802213, 9780295995342
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
5 MB (5218281 bytes)
Series
Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography
Pages
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Time added
2023-01-23 22:00:55
Biography & Autobiography; Nonfiction; BIO000000

Description

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.

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