Author: Dennis L. Dresang
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN: 087020937X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
As Wisconsin governor from 1971 to 1977, Patrick J. Lucey pursued an ambitious progressive agenda, tempered by the concerns of a fiscal conservative and a pragmatic realist. He was known for bridging partisan divides, building coalitions, and keeping politics civil. His legacy, which included merging Wisconsin’s universities into one system and equalizing the funding formula for public schools, continues to impact Wisconsin residents and communities. Preceding his service as governor, Lucey played a key role in rebuilding the Democratic Party in Wisconsin, returning a state that had been dominated by Republicans to a more moderate two-party system. As party chairman, he built coalitions between World War II veterans, remnants of the defunct Progressive Party, urban socialists, and activists in rural communities throughout the state. Through exclusive interviews and unprecedented access to archival materials, Dennis L. Dresang shares the story of this pivotal figure in Wisconsin history, from his small-town rural roots to his wide-ranging influence.
Patrick J. Lucey
Author: Dennis L. Dresang
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN: 087020937X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
As Wisconsin governor from 1971 to 1977, Patrick J. Lucey pursued an ambitious progressive agenda, tempered by the concerns of a fiscal conservative and a pragmatic realist. He was known for bridging partisan divides, building coalitions, and keeping politics civil. His legacy, which included merging Wisconsin’s universities into one system and equalizing the funding formula for public schools, continues to impact Wisconsin residents and communities. Preceding his service as governor, Lucey played a key role in rebuilding the Democratic Party in Wisconsin, returning a state that had been dominated by Republicans to a more moderate two-party system. As party chairman, he built coalitions between World War II veterans, remnants of the defunct Progressive Party, urban socialists, and activists in rural communities throughout the state. Through exclusive interviews and unprecedented access to archival materials, Dennis L. Dresang shares the story of this pivotal figure in Wisconsin history, from his small-town rural roots to his wide-ranging influence.
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN: 087020937X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
As Wisconsin governor from 1971 to 1977, Patrick J. Lucey pursued an ambitious progressive agenda, tempered by the concerns of a fiscal conservative and a pragmatic realist. He was known for bridging partisan divides, building coalitions, and keeping politics civil. His legacy, which included merging Wisconsin’s universities into one system and equalizing the funding formula for public schools, continues to impact Wisconsin residents and communities. Preceding his service as governor, Lucey played a key role in rebuilding the Democratic Party in Wisconsin, returning a state that had been dominated by Republicans to a more moderate two-party system. As party chairman, he built coalitions between World War II veterans, remnants of the defunct Progressive Party, urban socialists, and activists in rural communities throughout the state. Through exclusive interviews and unprecedented access to archival materials, Dennis L. Dresang shares the story of this pivotal figure in Wisconsin history, from his small-town rural roots to his wide-ranging influence.
The Conservative Heartland
Author: Jon K. Lauck
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700629319
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
In the wake of the 2016 presidential election there was widespread shock that the Midwest, the Democrats’ so-called blue wall, had been so effectively breached by Donald Trump. But the blue wall, as The Conservative Heartland makes clear, was never quite as secure as so many observers assumed. A deep look at the Midwest’s history of conservative politics, this timely volume reveals how conservative victories in state houses, legislatures, and national elections in the early twenty-first century, far from coming out of nowhere, in fact had extensive roots across decades of political organization in the region. Focusing on nine states, from Iowa and the Dakotas to Indiana and Ohio, the essays in this collection detail the rise of midwestern conservatism after World War II—a trend that coincided with the transformation of the prewar Republican Party into the New Right. This transformation, the authors contend, involved the Midwest and the Sunbelt states. Through the lenses of race, class, gender, and sexuality, their essays explore the development of midwestern conservative politics in light of deindustrialization, environmentalism, second wave feminism, mass incarceration, privatization, and debates over same-sex marriage and abortion, among other issues. Together these essays map the region’s complex patchwork of viable rural and urban areas, variously subject to a wide array of conflicting interests and concerns; the perspective they provide, at once broad and in-depth, offers unique historical insight into the Midwest’s political complexity—and its status as the last real competitive battleground in presidential elections.
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700629319
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
In the wake of the 2016 presidential election there was widespread shock that the Midwest, the Democrats’ so-called blue wall, had been so effectively breached by Donald Trump. But the blue wall, as The Conservative Heartland makes clear, was never quite as secure as so many observers assumed. A deep look at the Midwest’s history of conservative politics, this timely volume reveals how conservative victories in state houses, legislatures, and national elections in the early twenty-first century, far from coming out of nowhere, in fact had extensive roots across decades of political organization in the region. Focusing on nine states, from Iowa and the Dakotas to Indiana and Ohio, the essays in this collection detail the rise of midwestern conservatism after World War II—a trend that coincided with the transformation of the prewar Republican Party into the New Right. This transformation, the authors contend, involved the Midwest and the Sunbelt states. Through the lenses of race, class, gender, and sexuality, their essays explore the development of midwestern conservative politics in light of deindustrialization, environmentalism, second wave feminism, mass incarceration, privatization, and debates over same-sex marriage and abortion, among other issues. Together these essays map the region’s complex patchwork of viable rural and urban areas, variously subject to a wide array of conflicting interests and concerns; the perspective they provide, at once broad and in-depth, offers unique historical insight into the Midwest’s political complexity—and its status as the last real competitive battleground in presidential elections.
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
Author: United States. President
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1248
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1248
Book Description
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1977
Author: Carter, Jimmy
Publisher: Best Books on
ISBN: 1623767644
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1230
Book Description
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
Publisher: Best Books on
ISBN: 1623767644
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1230
Book Description
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1977
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Environmental Pollution
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 1678
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 1678
Book Description
Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1977: Washington, D.C
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Environmental Pollution
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Wisconsin Traffic Safety Reporter
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Traffic safety
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Traffic safety
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
Journal of the Senate of the ... General Assembly of the State of Illinois
Author: Illinois. General Assembly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 2470
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 2470
Book Description
Journal of the House of Representatives at the ... Session of the ... General Assembly of the State of Illinois ...
Author: Illinois. General Assembly. House of Representatives
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 2500
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 2500
Book Description
Journal of the House of Representatives
Author: Illinois. General Assembly. House of Representatives
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 2496
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 2496
Book Description