Description |
1 online resource (xi, 265 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) |
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data file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-247) and index. |
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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Language |
English. |
Subject |
Unruh, Jesse, 1922-1987.
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Unruh, Jesse, 1922-1987. |
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California. Legislature. Assembly -- Speakers -- Biography.
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California. Legislature. Assembly. |
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Biographies.
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Unruh, Jesse, 1922-1987 -- Influence.
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Politicians -- California -- Biography.
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Politicians. |
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California. |
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Legislators -- California -- Biography.
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Legislators. |
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California -- Politics and government -- 1951-
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Politics and government. |
Chronological Term |
1951- |
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California -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Chronological Term |
20th century |
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
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United States. |
Chronological Term |
1945-1989 |
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Center parties -- United States -- Case studies.
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Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
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Chronological Term |
1945- |
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political. |
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Social conditions. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Legislative Branch. |
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Center parties. |
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) |
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) |
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Orators. |
Chronological Term |
Since 1900 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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Case studies.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Big Daddy Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008. 9780520219670 (cloth : alk. paper) (DLC) 2007012133 |
ISBN |
9780520923348 ebook |
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0520923340 |
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9780520219670 cloth alkaline paper |
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0520219678 cloth alkaline paper |
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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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