| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 265 pages, [16] pages of plates) |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-247) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Unruh, Jesse, 1922-1987.
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Unruh, Jesse, 1922-1987 -- Influence
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| SUBJECT |
Unruh, Jesse, 1922-1987 fast |
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California. Legislature. Assembly -- Speakers -- Biography
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California. Legislature. Assembly fast |
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Politicians -- California -- Biography
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Legislators -- California -- Biography
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Center parties -- United States -- Case studies
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Legislative Branch.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
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Center parties
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Legislators
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Orators
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Politicians
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Politics and government
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Social conditions
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California -- Politics and government -- 1951- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85018891
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California -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140467
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140518
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California
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Case studies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021697044 |
| ISBN |
9780520923348 |
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0520923340 |
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1282758772 |
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9781282758773 |
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9786612758775 |
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6612758775 |
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1435611314 |
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9781435611313 |
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