Warren G. Magnuson and the shaping of twentieth-century America
By: Shelby Scates.
Series: The Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
Subjects: Magnuson, Warren Grant, 1905-; United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography.; Legislators -- United States -- Biography.; United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Description: Warren G. Magnuson served as U.S. senator from the state of Washington for six terms. The sheer sweep of his accomplishments is astonishing: authoring the Civil Rights Act, protecting Puget Sound, saving Boeing for Seattle, championing consumer protection legislation, reorganizing the railroads, and godfathering the electrification of the Pacific Northwest by pressing for Columbia and Snake River dams.

He pushed federal aid to education, while holding down Pentagon budgets, and established the National Institutes of Health (and kept research funds flowing liberally) while arguing throughout the McCarthy era against U.S. isolation from China. He did much more. But he was also a boon whiskey-and-poker companion to Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, and Johnson.

Shelby Scates traces Magnuson's life from his early years in the Fargo/Moorhead region of the upper Midwest to his death in Seattle in 1989 at age eighty-four.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.