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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... state slashed income tax rates several times—including, in one piece of legislation, the largest single tax rate cut, in percentage terms, of any federal or state tax reform over four decades. The state, at the same time, enacted an ...
... state established a new board to coordinate and rationalize the state's growing university system, a measure that helped establish Wisconsin as a leader in higher education. We enacted and enforced fair hiring practices protecting ...
... state, and around the country, but it should make us, at once, proud and impatient. Proud, that our state and our system is able to produce leaders like Walter Kohler Jr. Impatient, because in a time of a certain pessimissm about ...
... State Historical Society's series, The History of Wisconsin, especially William Thompson's volume 6, Continuity and Change 1940–1965 (Madison); Joint Committee on Legislative Organization, State of Wisconsin Blue Book, 2001–2002 ...
... state. While Kohler was Governor, Wisconsin built more roads per capita than almost any other state in the decade, despite being predominantly agricultural in its rhythm and landscape. Wisconsin's highway expansion program set the pace ...
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Kohler: A Political Biography of Walter J. Kohler, Jr Gregory A. Fossedal Vista previa limitada - 2003 |