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A legacy of leadership : governors and American history
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- Creator
- edited by Clayton McClure Brooks
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2008]
- ©2008
- Physical Details
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- viii, 288 pages, 21 unnumbered page of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0812240944, 0812208994, 9780812208993, 1322512426, 9780812240948
- OCLC
- ocn183261888, on1024051925, on1041991844, on1047036783, ocn756583429, ocn932313095, on1032686098, ocn922664858, on1037980010, on1046609370, ocn999354426, on1049612392, on1054881875
- Includes bibliographical references (page [247-273]) and index.
- Governing the twentieth century: building a history of the modern governorship / Clayton McClure Brooks -- Challenges of a new century: Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive Era / John Milton Cooper -- Huey Long and the Great Depression: rise of a populist demagogue / Richard D. White -- The gangbuster as governor: Thomas E. Dewey and the Republican New Deal / Richard Norton Smith -- Connecting the United States: governors and the building of the interstate system / Dan McNichol -- Governors in the Civil Rights Era: the Wallace factor / Jeff Frederick -- Preparing for the presidency: the political education of Ronald Reagan / Lou Cannon -- Devolution in American Federalism in the twentieth century / Richard P. Nathan -- The case of Ann Richards: women in the gubernatorial office / Jan Reid -- Conclusion: the evolution of the gubernatorial office: United States governors over the twentieth century -- Afterword: governing the twenty-first century -- Timeline of governors and states in the twentieth century