Ernest Gruening : Alaska's greatest governor
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- ISBN: 1889963356 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 1889963348 (alk. paper)
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Physical Description:
xxi, 314 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
print - Publisher: Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, c2004.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-302) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Gruening's life and career before Alaska -- North to the governorship -- Proposed resettlement of European refugees in Alaska -- Matter of taxes -- Arming Alaska -- North and war -- Censorship -- Alaska war council -- Alaska highway, the Aleutian campaign, and the end of the war in Alaska -- Tax battle continues -- Struggle for reconfirmation -- Creation of a modern tax system -- Statehood issue: 1939-1953 -- End of the governorship -- Battle continues -- Lobbying for statehood -- U.S. Senator at last -- Running for a sic-year term -- Conservation battles -- Gruening and Alaska native claims -- Vietnam issue -- Last campaign.for the Senate. |
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Homer Public Library | AK 979.804 NAS (Text) | 000118620 | Alaskana -- Nonfiction | Available | - |
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Ernest Gruening : Alaska's Greatest Governor
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Ernest Gruening : Alaska's Greatest Governor
In 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Ernest Gruening governor of territorial Alaska. What followed were twenty historic years that changed the face of North America when Alaska became a state in 1959. Using unpublished archival materials, Claus-M. Naske follows Gruening from Puerto Rico to the Pacific Islands and from Alaska to Antarctica. As governor, Gruening devoted himself to the economic development of Alaska and fought discrimination against Alaska Natives. In 1958, he was elected to the U.S. Senate where he opposed the Vietnam War and earned a reputation for his liberal views on civil rights. Gruening's letters and memos reveal the challenges that he faced every day as an activist governor and senator. As a man of talent, ambition, and ego, Gruening met conflict head-on and gained the respect of Alaskans for his honesty and plain speech. The life of Ernest Gruening is a personal account of Alaska statehood as well as a political odyssey through the twentieth century.