Preface

Seattle, May 24, 1989

Fargo/Moorhead

Seattle, 1925

Mr. Smooth

Depression

Young Man in a Hurry

New Deal, New World, the "Soviet of Washington"

Mr. Magnuson Goes to Washington

"Ensign" Magnuson

Adonis from Congress

Horses, Flaxseed, and Dutiful Son

Commander Magnuson

War, Politics, and McGoozle

Senator Magnuson

The "Pol's Pol," the Playboy's Playboy

Cold War, Monkey Business

Maggie, Scoop, and Overdrafts

The Sinner and the Saint

American Prime Time

Camelot and Comeback

Triumph, Cuba, and Trouble

Bumblebees

Civil Rights: The Whole Load of Hay Falls on Maggie

The Sixties

Revival

"Scoop and Maggie"

The Prime of Public Interest

The Great Dictator

A Time to Go

Coming Home: The Green Light

Notes

Index

Warren G. Magnuson served as U.S. senator from the state of Washington for six terms. The sheer sweep of his accomplishments is astonishing: authoring the 1964 Civil Rights Act, protecting Puget Sound, saving Boeing for Seattle, championing consumer protection legislation, reorganizing the railroads, and godfathering the electrification of the Pacific Northwest by pressing for Columbia and Snake River dams. He pushed for federal aid to education, kept Pentagon budgets down, and established the National Institutes of Health while arguing throughout the McCarthy era against U.S. isolation from China. He was also a whiskey-and-poker companion to Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, and Johnson.

Shelby Scates was a prize-winning journalist and columnist for International News Service, United Press International, the Associated Press, and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He is the author of War and Politics by Other Means: A Journalist's Memoir.