| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 322 pages) : illustrations |
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data file |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. The rise -- pt. 2. The fall. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Summary |
Overview: New evidence in the bribery trial of Michigan's once-loved but now forgotten governor and politician, John Swainson. As a teenage soldier he lost both legs in a WWII landmine explosion. Back in the United States, following a meteoric political rise in the Michigan State Senate, Swainson was elected as Michigan's youngest governor since Stevens T. Mason. In 1970, Swainson was elected to the Michigan Supreme Court, becoming one of the few public officials to have served in the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of state government. Then, in 1975, he was indicted on federal charges of bribery and perjury, and convicted of lying to a federal grand jury. Forced to leave the state Supreme Court and disbarred from practicing law, he became a pariah, sinking into depression and alcoholism. He virtually disappeared from public view. Lawrence Glazer re-examines the FBI's investigation of Swainson and delves into his 1975 trial in detail. He reveals new information from eyewitnesses who never testified and, in a poignant coda, relates the little-known story of Swainson's rehabilitation and return to public life as a historian. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Swainson, John B. (John Burley), 1925-1994.
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Swainson, John B. (John Burley), 1925-1994. |
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Governors -- Michigan -- Biography.
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Governors. |
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Michigan. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Michigan -- Politics and government -- 1951-
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Politics and government. |
| Chronological Term |
1951- |
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Since 1951 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic book.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Glazer, Lawrence M. Wounded warrior. East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2010 9780870139710 (DLC) 2010003510 (OCoLC)522429233 |
| ISBN |
9781609172060 (electronic book) |
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160917206X (electronic book) |
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1628951516 |
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9781628951516 (electronic book) |
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9780870139710 (cloth alkaline paper) |
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0870139711 |
| Music No. |
MWT11404967 |
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