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Forty Years a Legislator by Elmer Thomas; Carolyn G. Hanneman; Richard Lowitt; Cindy Simon Rosenthal is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Forty Years a Legislator about?

<p class="null1">The senator’s own account of his service to Oklahoma and the nation through depression and war</p> <p>Elmer Thomas (18761965) represented the people of Oklahoma in the state’s first legislature and in Congress. This memoir, written shortly after he left the U.S. Senate in 1951 but never before published, chronicles his long career and offers a wealth of information on people and events that helped shape the development of the state and the course of American history.</p> <p>Thomas became one of Oklahoma’s first state senators in 1907 and was involved with financing the construction of public works. As a member of the U.S. Congress, he made it his business to understand the Federal Reserve System, and as the farm crisis of the 1920s worsened during the Great Depression, he consistently argued for inflating the currency to stimulate the economy—a struggle that became central to his career and that he eventually won.</p> <p>Thomas’s panoramic look at the issues of his time includes a behind-the-scenes view of the Nürnberg War Crimes Trial and also tells how he helped push funding for the atomic bomb project through Congress without disclosing its true nature. Thomas

Who reads Forty Years a Legislator?

Author

Elmer Thomas; Carolyn G. Hanneman; Richard Lowitt; Cindy Simon Rosenthal

Publisher

University of Oklahoma Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780806182360

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, History, Biography