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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... McCarthy, or as part of the family whose company was targeted in the famous “Kohler Strike.” In many histories of Wisconsin, it's hard to find a record of the Kohler tax cut, the Kohler battle for highway expansion and safety, or the ...
... McCarthy. Kohler and McCarthy had an increasingly strained relationship – an indicator of how far the infamous senator would stray from the mainstream of his own party and state. While Kohler was Governor, Wisconsin built more roads per ...
... WE CLOSE our eyes and put ourselves in 1956 again, we can see the great figures from half a century ago lumbering across Wisconsin. William Proxmire and Gaylord Nelson, Walter Kohler and Melvin Laird, Joseph McCarthy and Tommy.
... McCarthy and Tommy Thompson were all there. And it was there that they all made history. It was the end of almost an entire century of Republican domination of the state, and the onset of a highly competitive, two-party state. Not far ...
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Kohler: A Political Biography of Walter J. Kohler, Jr Gregory A. Fossedal Vista previa limitada - 2003 |