Ernest Gruening

by Naske, Claus-M

• ISBN13: 9781889963341
• ISBN10: 1889963348
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-05-01
• Publisher: Univ of Alaska Pr

Summary

In 1939, President Roosevelt appointed Ernest Gruening governor of territorial Alaska. What followed were twenty historic years that changed the face of North America when Alaska became a state in 1959. Using unpublished archival materials, historian Claus-M. Naske reveals the challenges that Gruening faced every day as an activist governor and senator. The life of Ernest Gruening is a personal account of Alaska statehood, as well as a political odyssey through the twentieth century.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	xiii
Gruening's Life and Career Before Alaska	1	(24)
North to the Governorship	25	(8)
Proposed Resettlement of European Refugees in Alaska	33	(8)
A Matter of Taxes	41	(10)
Arming Alaska	51	(10)
The North and War	61	(12)
Censorship	73	(8)
Alaska War Council	81	(8)
The Alaska Highway, the Aleutian Campaign, and the End of the War in Alaska	89	(12)
The Tax Battle Continues	101	(20)
The Struggle for Reconfirmation	121	(12)
The Creation of a Modern Tax System	133	(10)
The Statehood Issue: 1939 to 1953	143	(16)
The End of the Governorship	159	(12)
The Battle Continues	171	(14)
Lobbying for Statehood	185	(18)
A U.S. Senator at Last	203	(10)
Running for a Six-Year Term	213	(8)
Conservation Battles	221	(10)
Gruening and Alaska Native Claims	231	(16)
The Vietnam Issue	247	(12)
The Last Campaign for the Senate	259	(16)
Conclusions	275	(2)
Notes	277	(21)
Bibliography	298	(5)
Index	303