| An Editor for Oregon: Charles A. Sprague and the Politics of Change Contributor(s): McKay, Floyd J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0870714392 ISBN-13: 9780870714399 Publisher: Oregon State University Press OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 1998 Annotation: In chronicling the life of governor and newspaper editor Charles Sprague, McKay guides readers through the politics and journalism of twentieth-century Oregon. Sprague's remarkable career, writes McKay, "is in effect the life of a state through Depression, war and recovery, and into the era of Tom McCall and the Oregon Story". |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Political - History | United States - State & Local - Pacific Northwest (or, Wa) - Biography & Autobiography | Historical |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 98-30120 |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.28" W x 9.35" (1.61 lbs) 342 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Pacific Northwest - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Oregon |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In chronicling the life of Oregon governor and newspaper editor Charles A. Sprague, Floyd McKay guides readers through the politics and journalism of twentieth-century Oregon. Newspaperman Charles Sprague, a progressive Republican, had lived in Oregon for only thirteen years when he became the surprise victor of the 1938 gubernatorial race. Although a capable governor, Sprague gained greater prominence during his forty-year tenure as editor and publisher of The Oregon Statesman in Salem. It was to Sprague's daily front-page column, It Seems To Me, that Oregon politicians looked for advice, and the column was required reading for other editors as they shaped a moderate Republican image for postwar Oregon. McKay examines the influence of Sprague's involvement in the Progressive politics of Theodore Roosevelt, his return to Republican orthodoxy, and his later emergence as a spokesman for liberal positions on race and justice, an evolution shaped by his governorship and service at the United Nations. Sprague's decisions - and later atonements - concerning ultra-patriotism in World War I and internment of Japanese Americans in World War II reveal an editor and governor torn by issues of his day. |