Focus (Forum & Focus)
Nov. 10, 2007
When Government Worked
Forum Column - By Richard M. Mosk - A new book on former California Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh recalls the Golden State's political landscape in the 1960s and 1970s.
By Richard M. Mosk
Among the towering figures in California history is Jesse Unruh, known as "Big Daddy" - a name popularized in Tennessee Williams' 1958 Pulitzer Prize winning play, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." Unruh was a powerful state legislator in the 1960s - serving as speaker of the state assembly from 1961 to 1969 - and the shaping force behind the modernization of the Legislature. He was the author of the Unr...
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