Russell Long

Author : Michael S. Martin
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781626741119

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Russell Long by Michael S. Martin Pdf

Russell Long (1918-2003) occupies a unique niche in twentieth-century United States history. Born into Louisiana’s most influential political family, and son of perhaps the most famous Louisianan of all time, Long extended the political power generated by other members of his family and attained heights of power unknown to his predecessors, including his father, Huey. The Long family and its followers pervaded Louisiana politics from the late 1920s through the 1980s. Being a Long—especially a son of Huey Long—preordained Russell for a political life. His father’s assassination set the wheels in motion for his eventual political career. In 1948, Russell followed his father and his mother to a seat in the United States Senate. In due course, he rose to the politically eminent positions of majority whip and chair of the Senate Finance Committee. Russell Long: A Life in Politics examines Long’s public life and places it within the context of twentieth-century Louisiana, southern, and national politics. In Louisiana, Long’s politics arose out of the Longite/ Anti-Longite period of history. Yet he transcended many of those two groups’ factional squabbles. In the national realm, Long’s politics exhibited a working philosophy that straddled the boundaries between New Deal liberalism and southern conservatism. By the time of his retirement in early 1987, he had witnessed the demise of one political paradigm—the New Deal liberal consensus—and the creation of one dominated by a new style of conservatism.

Author : Michael S. Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1617039748

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Russell Long by Michael S. Martin Pdf

The story of Huey Long's son, the powerful United States senator

Author : Robert D. Loevy
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0791433617

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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 by Robert D. Loevy Pdf

A collection of essays discussing the Civil Rights act

Author : Gilbert C. Fite
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0807854654

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Richard B. Russell, Jr., Senator from Georgia by Gilbert C. Fite Pdf

Richard B. Russell, Jr., Senator From Georgia

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1338 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Law
ISBN : HARVARD:32044116494253

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Congressional Record by United States. Congress Pdf

The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1620 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Finance, Public
ISBN : UCAL:B3566325

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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Finance by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Foreign trade regulation
ISBN : UCAL:$B643702

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Trade Act of 1970: Amendments 925 and 1009 to H.R. 17550. Social Security Amendments of 1970 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance Pdf

Author : Donald Gibson
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 1560727276

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The Kennedy Assassination Cover-up by Donald Gibson Pdf

Professor Gibson peels away layers of the JFK assassination conspiracy and cover-up. An effectively researched and probing analysis of America's most important solved murder.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on Oversight of the Internal Revenue Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Employee ownership
ISBN : PURD:32754076292733

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Employee Stock Ownership Plans for Railroads by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on Oversight of the Internal Revenue Service Pdf

Author : Dave Dixon
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1455611565

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The Saints, The Superdome, and the Scandal by Dave Dixon Pdf

"Filled with insider stories about the sports scene of New Orleans and previously untold secret political maneuvers made to bring the Saints to New Orleans." -New Orleans Times-Picayune "Dave Dixon offers a behind-the-scenes look at the New Orleans NFL." -(LA) The Daily Advertiser Before the Saints were synonymous with New Orleans, Dave Dixon was gathering support to create a team and build a Superdome to accommodate them. The man affectionately known as the "Father of the Saints" gives an insider's perspective on the historical events that shaped the New Orleans sports scene. Little-known facts reveal the negotiations, the payoffs, and the votes that eventually led to the announcement of the sixteenth franchise of the National Football League on November 1, 1966. Nine years after the NFL announcement, the Louisiana Superdome opened on August 3, 1975, as a fifty-two-acre, 269,000-square-foot facility that forever changed the skyline of New Orleans. The opening of this facility not only served as the home of the Saints, but later became home to evacuees of Hurricane Katrina. As Dixon reflects on the efforts of the key individuals who worked collectively to make this happen, he shares insight on a national scandal that he credits with altering our political landscape following the 1968 presidential elections and eventually leading to the fall of John McKeithen, a dear friend and supporter of the Saints. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Dave Dixon, named one of the "Ten Most Important New Orleanians of the 20th Century" by New Orleans Magazine was widely known for his time as the executive director of the Louisiana Superdome. He was the founder of the United States Football League (USFL) in 1983 and cofounder of World Championship Tennis. He served as a member of Loyola University's Board of Trustees and spoke to both Harvard University and Stanford University graduate schools of business. Dixon passed away in August of 2010.

Author : Bill Bradley
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307491947

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Time Present, Time Past by Bill Bradley Pdf

During his terms in the U.S. Senate, Bill Bradley won a national reputation for thoughtfulness, decency, and a willingness to take controversial positions on issues ranging from tax reform to the rights of Native Americans. All these qualities inform this best-selling memoir, in which Bradley assesses his political career and the experiences that shaped his convictions, and looks beyond them to consider the state of the American union on the eve of the 21st century. Time Present, Time Past offers an intimate portrait of the day-to-day working of the Senate: how legislation gets passed and sometimes thwarted; how money is raised and at what cost. But Bradley also writes about deeper questions: What does it means to be an American in an ago of dwindling opportunities and increasing inequality? How much can we expect from our public servants? What do we owe our fellow citizens? The result is a genuinely revelatory book, informed by intelligence, compassion, and unprecedented candor. "Strikingly reflects the realities of modern politics, what it looks like, feels like, from the inside."--New York Times Book Review

Author : Raymond Strother
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005-04-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0807130605

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Falling Up by Raymond Strother Pdf

This brash and rollicking autobiography is a potent primer of the rough-and-tumble world of political consulting by one of its founding fathers and preeminent experts. A cross between a patriotic redneck raconteur and a TV-savvy renaissance man, Raymond D. Strother is unafraid to name names and refuses to mince words in tales of what he calls "the beauty and gore" of American politics. From the crash course in Louisiana politics and corruption he received following graduate school to his compelling entry into the big-time senatorial and congressional races of the 1970s and early 1980s and his adventures with candidates Clinton, Gore, and Hart and famous consultants Dick Morris and James Carville, Strother offers a wildly entertaining, controversial, but finally optimistic political and media success story that will thrill and inspire anyone spellbound by American politics.

Author : Walter Greaves Cowan,Jack B. McGuire
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1604733209

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Louisiana Governors by Walter Greaves Cowan,Jack B. McGuire Pdf

Walter Greaves Cowan and Jack B. McGuire, veteran authorities on the Louisiana political scene, trace the history of the state's leaders from the French and Spanish colonial eras to the present day. Using a variety of sources, including personal interviews with the recent governors, they describe unforgettable personalities in Louisiana Governors: Rulers, Rascals, and Reformers, now available in paperback. Such early figures as Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville and Jean Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville set the tone for later colonial governors. They had their troubles, fending off protesting Indians and other French and Spanish leaders vying for power. Following the Louisiana Purchase, American politics took hold. The Whigs, Know Nothings, Republicans, and Democrats have all waxed and waned through times of slavery, secession, suffrage, and segregation. The early twentieth century saw the rise of Huey P. Long, who established himself as a virtual dictator. An assassin's bullet ended Long's life in 1935, but his followers managed to hold on to the governorship until 1940. In 1948 his brother, Earl Long, brought the family back into power. Over the years, two governors were impeached but were not removed from office, and two governors were jailed in federal prison. The experiences, decisions, and conflicts of Louisiana governors have reflected and influenced the history of the state, often in dramatic and fascinating ways.

Author : John Maginnis
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1455616273

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Last Hayride, The by John Maginnis Pdf

A wild and hilarious odyssey through Louisiana politics. In 1983 Edwin Edwards, one of the most investigated, reviled, and successful figures in American politics was at top form and wanted to be governor again. The politics of the Cajun governor, who ran the state for eight years with equal parts charm and savvy while leading a personal life as freewheeling and uninhibited as his politics, is exposed in all his glory.

Author : Karl Alexander,Doris Entwisle,Linda Olson
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781610448239

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The Long Shadow by Karl Alexander,Doris Entwisle,Linda Olson Pdf

A volume in the American Sociological Association's Rose Series in Sociology West Baltimore stands out in the popular imagination as the quintessential “inner city”—gritty, run-down, and marred by drugs and gang violence. Indeed, with the collapse of manufacturing jobs in the 1970s, the area experienced a rapid onset of poverty and high unemployment, with few public resources available to alleviate economic distress. But in stark contrast to the image of a perpetual “urban underclass” depicted in television by shows like The Wire, sociologists Karl Alexander, Doris Entwisle, and Linda Olson present a more nuanced portrait of Baltimore’s inner city residents that employs important new research on the significance of early-life opportunities available to low-income populations. The Long Shadow focuses on children who grew up in west Baltimore neighborhoods and others like them throughout the city, tracing how their early lives in the inner city have affected their long-term well-being. Although research for this book was conducted in Baltimore, that city’s struggles with deindustrialization, white flight, and concentrated poverty were characteristic of most East Coast and Midwest manufacturing cities. The experience of Baltimore’s children who came of age during this era is mirrored in the experiences of urban children across the nation. For 25 years, the authors of The Long Shadow tracked the life progress of a group of almost 800 predominantly low-income Baltimore school children through the Beginning School Study Youth Panel (BSSYP). The study monitored the children’s transitions to young adulthood with special attention to how opportunities available to them as early as first grade shaped their socioeconomic status as adults. The authors’ fine-grained analysis confirms that the children who lived in more cohesive neighborhoods, had stronger families, and attended better schools tended to maintain a higher economic status later in life. As young adults, they held higher-income jobs and had achieved more personal milestones (such as marriage) than their lower-status counterparts. Differences in race and gender further stratified life opportunities for the Baltimore children. As one of the first studies to closely examine the outcomes of inner-city whites in addition to African Americans, data from the BSSYP shows that by adulthood, white men of lower status family background, despite attaining less education on average, were more likely to be employed than any other group in part due to family connections and long-standing racial biases in Baltimore’s industrial economy. Gender imbalances were also evident: the women, who were more likely to be working in low-wage service and clerical jobs, earned less than men. African American women were doubly disadvantaged insofar as they were less likely to be in a stable relationship than white women, and therefore less likely to benefit from a second income. Combining original interviews with Baltimore families, teachers, and other community members with the empirical data gathered from the authors’ groundbreaking research, The Long Shadow unravels the complex connections between socioeconomic origins and socioeconomic destinations to reveal a startling and much-needed examination of who succeeds and why.