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Author Boyarsky, Bill.

Title Big Daddy : Jesse Unruh and the art of power politics / Bill Boyarsky.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 265 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates)
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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.
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Language English.
Subject Unruh, Jesse, 1922-1987.
Unruh, Jesse, 1922-1987.
California. Legislature. Assembly -- Speakers -- Biography.
California. Legislature. Assembly.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Unruh, Jesse, 1922-1987 -- Influence.
Politicians -- California -- Biography.
Politicians.
California.
Legislators -- California -- Biography.
Legislators.
California -- Politics and government -- 1951-
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1951-
Subject California -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
United States.
Chronological Term 1945-1989
Subject Center parties -- United States -- Case studies.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
Chronological Term 1945-
Subject BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political.
Social conditions.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Legislative Branch.
Center parties.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Orators.
Chronological Term Since 1900
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Case studies.
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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9780520219670 cloth alkaline paper
0520219678 cloth alkaline paper
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