Kohler: A Political Biography of Walter J.Kohler, Jr.Routledge, 2018 M01 16 - 142 páginas McCarthy and Eisenhower, Nelson, Lucey, and Proxmire--they were all giants of state and national politics in the 1950s. Yet the period also produced Walter J. Kohler, Jr., a three-term governor who, in the words of the Milwaukee Journal, was the most dominant force in Wisconsin politics of his era. In this highly readable biography personalities and events of the 1950s are discussed, as are some of the issues that still divide contemporary Democrats and Republicans in the twenty-first century. Walter Kohler was one of two men to gather 1 million votes for governor in Wisconsin through the end of the twentieth century. He is credited with helping create the Eisenhower presidency, both by his support in Wisconsin's critical presidential primary, and by organizing the nation's Republican governors to endorse Ike in the run-up to the 1952 GOP Convention. He signed the largest income tax cut, in percentage-rate terms, at any level of government between Coolidge and Kennedy. He fought for a vast expansion of Wisconsin's highway system, and in 1952 launched what became a national crusade for traffic safety. He paved the way for coordination of Wisconsin's now-unified university system; took the battle for civil rights to Wisconsin's shipping, hotel, manufacturing, and other industries, and became the first governor in two decades to fulfill his constitutional duty to enact a reapportionment of the state legislature. Fossedal also captures Kohler as political anti-hero.In an age when Americans long for self-governance by our political and corporate officials, Kohler's integrity as a man may be as arresting as his acts as governor. |
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A Political Biography of Walter J.Kohler, Jr. Gregory Fossedal. government as in business. Wisconsin enacted budget ... Jr., governor of the state from 1951 to 1957, and a leader in industry and public affairs before and after that formal ...
... Kohler Jr. Impatient, because in a time of a certain pessimissm about politics, we have the means at our disposal to select and produce leaders like him. I remember Kohler as governor from my own days in elementary and high school in ...
A Political Biography of Walter J.Kohler, Jr. Gregory Fossedal. generations of Kohlers active, and successful, in local, state, and national political pursuits. WALTER Jodok Kohler Jr. was born into this century of the possible on April ...
... Kohler Jr. started out in the local public schools, attending Lincoln School and, for a time, Central High. Unlike his father, who ceased formal schooling at about the eighth grade, Walter Kohler Jr. went to a preparatory institution ...
... Kohler, Jr., served as mayor of Sheboygan and might have risen to higher office if he had not died in 1900. Now, with the Coolidge-Mellon prosperity leading America through the Roaring Twenties, Walter Kohler Sr. decided to seek the ...
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Kohler: A Political Biography of Walter J. Kohler, Jr Gregory A. Fossedal Vista previa limitada - 2003 |