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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. 5675. George Norris, Going Home Reflections of a Progressive Statesman, by Gene A. Budig and Don Walton (read 11 Feb 2020) George Norris, who served in the House ten years and aided in ending the reign of Czar Cannon as Speaker, and who served as a Senator from Nebraska from 1913 till 1943, and who I much admired and whose loss to Kenneth Wherry in 1942 I bitterly deplored when it occurred and after since I felt Wherry was a most deplorable senator, is the subject of this little book published in 2013 The book is tenderly laudatory of Norris and I could find nothing in the book to deprecate even though it could have been more informative and a bit less obsequious. But it is a little book (115 pages) so I felt the book was worth reading. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
After forty years of congressional service, five terms in the House and five in the Senate, George William Norris (1861-1944) was going home to Nebraska. Norris had lost the 1942 Senate race and felt the defeat keenly. But as his train rolled westward, he was forcefully reminded of what his legislative efforts had wrought, from the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to the Rural Electrification Act (REA), which brought power to the land unfolding before him. It is here that authors Gene A. Budig and Don Walton begin their journey with this great statesman, perhaps the last progressive Republican, a tireless champion of "public power" and the common man. This book carries readers back through Norris's career and accomplishments: the establishment of the TVA and the REA as well as the Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution and the shaping of Nebraska's unique unicameral legislature. Norris recalls the battles he waged, one of which landed him in John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, and the alliances he formed with leading political figures of his day, from Fiorello La Guardia to Franklin D. Roosevelt. The result is a contemporary perspective on a man who fiercely defended the public interest and followed his convictions to the lasting benefit of his state and his country. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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