Big Daddy : Jesse Unruh and the art of power politics

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    • Boyarsky, Bill

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Big Daddy : Jesse Unruh and the art of power politics

Bill Boyarsky

University of California Press, c2008

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

Revealing and frank, this highly engaging biography tells the story of an American original, California's Big Daddy, Jesse Unruh (1922-1987), a charismatic man whose power reached far beyond the offices he held. Unruh, who was born into Texas sharecropper poverty, became a larger-than-life figure and a principal architect and builder of modern California - first as an assemblyman, then as assembly speaker, and finally, as state treasurer. He was also a great character: a combination of intelligence, wit, idealism, cynicism, woman-chasing vulgarity, charm, drunken excess, and political skill all wrapped up in one big package. He dominated the California capitol and extended his influence to Washington and Wall Street. He was close to Lyndon Johnson and the Kennedys, but closest to Robert Kennedy, and was in the Ambassador Hotel kitchen when Kennedy was shot. Bill Boyarsky gives a close-up look at this extraordinary political leader, a man who believed that politics was the art of the possible, and his era.

目次

Acknowledgments Prologue 1. The Death of a Boss 2. The Road to California 3. The GI Bill of Rights 4. Hat in the Ring 5. The Education of a Rookie 6. Segregation and the Unruh Civil Rights Act 7. Fair Housing and White Backlash 8. Animal House 9. Backstabbing Democrats 10. Dirty Dealings and High Idealism 11. A Full-Time Legislature 12. Unruh, Robert Kennedy, and the Anti-War Movement 13. Unruh versus Reagan 14. The Man with the Money Epilogue Notes Index

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