At last! A political biography that's also a page-turner!Bill Boyarsky's "Big Daddy, Jesse Unruh and the Art of Power Politics" is a great political biography that has everything; sex, war and larger than life personalities.Follow Jess Unruh from his roots in Depression era Texas though the turbulent sixties and seventies to the prosperous 1980s.Unruh revolutionized civil rights legislation and was instrumental in making California the great & prosperous state it is today.Bill Boyarsky has written an incredibly colorful book about the hard-drinking California politics of the 20th century, when politicians weren't expected to live like clergymen.Boyarsky brings this era to life with oral history from the principal players throughout Unruh's life.This book is great reading, and a fascinating inside look into the personalities that once ran California.
Fully referenced and indexed, with lots of photographs, this book will be a welcome addition to any library and shouldbecome required reading for any student of California history or political science.
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