Jess - The Political Career of Jesse Marvin Unruh

Informationen zum Autor Jackson K. Putnam Klappentext Jesse Marvin Unruh acquired a national political reputation despite the fact that he never gained office above the California governmental level. He spent sixteen years (1955-1970) in the state legislature, seven of them as assembly speaker. While there he secured passage of moderate-liberal legislation and upgraded the quality of the state legislature to the number one position in the nation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction and Acknowledgments Chapter 2 Youth: From Land to Sea, 1922-1945 Chapter 3 Studying, Working, and Running, 1945-1954 Chapter 4 The Legislator: Apprenticeship, 1955-1957 Chapter 5 The Road to the Speaker's Chair, 1958-1961 Chapter 6 The Speaker: Unruh and His System 1961-1968 Chapter 7 The Speaker's Agenda: Political, Socio-economic, and Cultural Chapter 8 The Speaker and the Governor: Pat Brown, 1962-1966 Chapter 9 The Speaker and the Governor: Ronald Reagan, 1967-1968 Chapter 10 Reagan, Unruh, and RFK in the 1968 Election Chapter 11 Minority Leader and Free Agent, 1969-1970 Chapter 12 The Race for Governor, 1970 Chapter 13 The Treasurer: An Overview of Unruh's Post-Legislative Career, 1970-1987 Chapter 14 Summary and Epilogue Chapter 15 Bibliography

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Jackson K Putnam, Jackson K. Putnam, Putnam Jackson K.
• Verlag: University Press Of America
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 22.03.2005
• EAN: 9780761830672
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-3067-2
• Seiten: 462
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Briefe, Tagebücher; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Politics & government, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / State, Regional government, Regional / local / state government