American Legislative Leaders in the West, 1911-1994
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- ISBN 9780313302121
- Publication Date: 23 Jul 1997
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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The first of four volumes comprising a biographical dictionary of state house speakers from 1911 to 1994, this book covers speakers from Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. Entries provide basic biographical and career information on more than 400 speakers. The book opens with an insightful analytical introduction and includes valuable statistical appendixes based on an exhaustive database.
Complementing Charles R. Ritter and Jon L. Wakelyn's book ^IAmerican Legislative Leaders, 1850-1910^R (1989), this book covers those who have served as state speakers in the West since 1910. Forthcoming volumes will cover state house speakers in the South, the Midwest, and the Northeast.
NANCY WEATHERLY SHARP is a member of the faculty and Assistant Dean at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication at Syracuse University. She is the author/editor of Communications Research: The Challenge of the Information Age (1988).
JAMES ROGER SHARP is Professor of History and former department chair at Syracuse University. He is the author of American Politics in the Early Republic: The New Nation in Crisis (1993) and The Jacksonians versus the Banks: Politics in the States after the Panic of 1837 (1970).
Gina Petonito
Kevin G. Atwater
Charles F. Ritter
Jon L. Wakelyn
