Earl Warren's Masonic Lodge

Earl Warren's Masonic Lodge
Author: E. Herbert Phillips
Publisher:
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2013-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9780944285930

Long before Earl Warren was a famous governor of California and then an important Chief Justice of the United States, he was forging a career in Freemasonry. Starting as an officer and eventually master of a local lodge whose history is recounted in this volume, he worked his way up the stairs of the Masonic hierarchy to become Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of California.

Embattled Dreams

Embattled Dreams
Author: Kevin Starr
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2002-05-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 0195124375

The State Librarian of California presents the sixth volume in "Americans and the California Dream, " one of the great ongoing works of American cultural history. 38 halftones.

Justice for All

Justice for All
Author: Jim Newton
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 641
Release: 2007-10-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1440619808

One of the most acclaimed and best political biographies of its time, Justice for All is a monumental work dedicated to a complicated and principled figure that will become a seminal work of twentieth-century U.S. history. In Justice for All, Jim Newton, an award-winning journalist for the Los Angeles Times, brings readers the first truly comprehensive consideration of Earl Warren, the politician-turned-Chief Justice who refashioned the place of the court in American life through landmark Supreme Court cases whose names have entered the common parlance -- Brown v. Board of Education, Griswold v. Connecticut, Miranda v. Arizona, to name just a few. Drawing on unmatched access to government, academic, and private documents pertaining to Warren's life and career, Newton explores a fascinating angle of U.S. Supreme Court history while illuminating both the public and the private Warren.

Memoirs of My Services in the World War, 1917-1918

Memoirs of My Services in the World War, 1917-1918
Author: George Catlett Marshall
Publisher:
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1976
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

George C. Marshall was an American military leader, Chief of Staff of the Army, Secretary of State, and the third Secretary of Defense. Once noted as the "organizer of victory" by Winston Churchill for his leadership of the Allied victory in World War II, Marshall served as the United States Army Chief of Staff during the war and as the chief military adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. As Secretary of State, his name was given to the Marshall Plan, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953. He drafted this manuscript while he was in Washington, D.C., between 1919 and 1924 as aide-de-camp to General of the Armies John J. Pershing. However, given the growing bitterness of the "memoirs wars" of the period he decided against publication, and the draft sat unused until the 1970s when Marshall's step-daughter and her husband decided to publish it.

South St. Paul

South St. Paul
Author: Lois A. Glewwe
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2015-12-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1625854137

Incorporated in 1887, South St. Paul grew rapidly as the blue-collar counterpart to the bright lights and sophistication of its cosmopolitan neighbors Minneapolis and St. Paul. Its prosperous stockyards and slaughterhouses ranked the city among America's largest meatpacking centers. The proud city fell on hard economic times in the second half of the twentieth century. Broad swaths of empty buildings were razed as an enticement to promised redevelopment programs that never happened. In 1990, South St. Paul began to chart out its own successful path to renewal with a pristine riverfront park, a trail system and a business park where the stockyards once stood. Author and historian Lois A. Glewwe brings the story of the city's revival to life in this history of a remarkable community.