Big Daddy : Jesse Unruh and the art of power politics / Bill Boyarsky.
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TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2008.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 265 pages, [16] pages of plates)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780520923348
- 0520923340
- 1282758772
- 9781282758773
- 9786612758775
- 6612758775
- 1435611314
- 9781435611313
- Unruh, Jesse, 1922-1987
- California. Legislature. Assembly -- Speakers -- Biography
- Unruh, Jesse, 1922-1987 -- Influence
- Unruh, Jesse, 1922-1987
- California. Legislature. Assembly
- Politicians -- California -- Biography
- Legislators -- California -- Biography
- California -- Politics and government -- 1951-
- California -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989
- Center parties -- United States -- Case studies
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
- Hommes politiques -- Californie -- Biographies
- Californie -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1951-
- Californie -- Conditions sociales -- 20e siècle
- États-Unis -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1945-1989
- Centre (Science politique) -- États-Unis -- Études de cas
- États-Unis -- Conditions sociales -- 1945-
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Legislative Branch
- HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
- Center parties
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Legislators
- Orators
- Politicians
- Politics and government
- Social conditions
- California
- United States
- Since 1900
- 328.794092 B 22
- F866.4.U57
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-247) and index.
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The death of a boss -- The road to California -- The GI Bill of Rights -- Hat in the ring -- The education of a rookie -- Segregation and the unruh civil rights act -- Fair housing and white backlash -- Animal house -- Backstabbing democrats -- Dirty dealings and high idealism -- A full-time legislature -- Unruh, Robert Kennedy, and the anti-war movement -- Unruh versus Reagan -- The man with the money.
Revealing and frank, this biography tells the story of an American original, California's Big Daddy, Jesse Unruh (1922-1987), who was born into Texas sharecropper poverty, became a larger-than-life figure and a principal architect and builder of modern California. It also looks at the man who believed that politics was the art of the possible.
English.
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