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George Norris, going home : reflections of a progressive statesman / Gene A. Budig and Don Walton ; preface by George W. Norris.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, (c)2013.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781461940494
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • E748 .G467 2013
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Subject: After forty years of congressional service, five terms in the House and five in the Senate, George William Norris (1861-1944) was going home to Nebraska. Norris had lost the 1942 Senate race and felt the defeat keenly. But as his train rolled westward, he was forcefully reminded of what his legislative efforts had wrought, from the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to the Rural Electrification Act (REA), which brought power to the land unfolding before him. It is here that authors Gene A. Budig and Don Walton begin their journey with this great statesman, perhaps the last progressive Republi.
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After forty years of congressional service, five terms in the House and five in the Senate, George William Norris (1861-1944) was going home to Nebraska. Norris had lost the 1942 Senate race and felt the defeat keenly. But as his train rolled westward, he was forcefully reminded of what his legislative efforts had wrought, from the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to the Rural Electrification Act (REA), which brought power to the land unfolding before him. It is here that authors Gene A. Budig and Don Walton begin their journey with this great statesman, perhaps the last progressive Republi.

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