Warren G. Magnuson and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century America - Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography

Jacket Description/Back: 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. Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: PrefaceSeattle, May 24, 1989Fargo/MoorheadSeattle, 1925Mr. SmoothDepressionYoung Man in a HurryNew Deal, New World, the "Soviet of Washington"Mr. Magnuson Goes to Washington"Ensign" MagnusonAdonis from CongressHorses, Flaxseed, and Dutiful SonCommander MagnusonWar, Politics, and McGoozleSenator MagnusonThe "Pol's Pol," the Playboy's PlayboyCold War, Monkey BusinessMaggie, Scoop, and OverdraftsThe Sinner and the SaintAmerican Prime TimeCamelot and ComebackTriumph, Cuba, and TroubleBumblebeesCivil Rights: The Whole Load of Hay Falls on MaggieThe SixtiesRevival"Scoop and Maggie"The Prime of Public InterestThe Great DictatorA Time to GoComing Home: The Green LightNotesIndexBiographical Note: 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."Publisher Marketing: 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.

Contributor Bio:  Scates, Shelby Shelby Scates is the author of Warren G. Magnuson and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century America and War and Politics by Other Means. He lives in Seattle, where for many years he was a political columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.