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Ernest Gruening, Alaska's greatest governor
Naske, Claus-M.

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Personal author:: Naske, Claus-M.
Title:: Ernest Gruening, Alaska's greatest governor / Claus-M. Naske.
Publication info:: Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, c2004.
Physical descrip:: xxi, 314 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography note:: Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-302) and index.
Contents:: Gruening's life and career before Alaska -- North to the governorship -- Proposed resettlement of European refugees in Alaska -- A matter of taxes -- Arming Alaska -- The North and war -- Censorship -- Alaska war council -- The Alaska highway, the Aleutian campaign, and the end of the war in Alaska -- The tax battle continues -- The struggle for reconfirmation -- The creation of a modern tax system -- The statehood issue : 1939-1953 -- The end of the governorship -- The battle continues -- Lobbying for statehood -- A U.S. Senator at last -- Running for a six-year term -- Conservation battles -- Gruening and Alaska native claims -- The Vietnam issue -- The last campaign for the Senate.
Personal subject:: Gruening, Ernest, 1887-1974.
Corporate subject:: United States. Congress. Senate--Biography.
Subject:: Legislators--United States--Biography.
Subject:: Governors--Alaska--Biography.
Geographic term:: Alaska--Politics and government--1867-1959.
Geographic term:: Alaska--Politics and government--1959-

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Bracken Library
	Copy	Material	Location
E748.G898 N37 2004	1	General Collection Book	General Collection, Bracken Library

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