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Governor Tom Kean : from the New Jersey statehouse to the 9-11 Commission /

Long before Bill Clinton spoke of ""triangulation, "" a term that referred to a centrist governing style, prior to Tony Blair repositioning the British Labor Party midway between Thatcher conservatism and militant trade unionism, and far ahead of George W. Bush referring to his a...

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Main Author: Felzenberg, Alvin S.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rivergate Books/Rutgers University Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
Kean, Thomas H.
United States. > Congress. > House > Biography.
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States.
Drew University > Presidents > Biography.
Legislators > United States > Biography.
Governors > New Jersey > Biography.
Legislators > New Jersey > Biography.
New Jersey > Politics and government > 1951-
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780813539867
0813539862
1282133578
9781282133570
9786613806154
6613806153
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • The Early Years
  • Kean Comes of Age
  • In the Service of His Father
  • Kean Finds His Calling
  • The Precocious Freshman
  • The Institutional Reformer
  • In the Minority But Not in the Wilderness
  • The Making of the Governor, 1981
  • A Truncated Transition
  • Kean Settles In
  • Building New Jersey Pride
  • The Education Governor
  • Kean and the Arts
  • Kean the Environmentalist
  • The Politics of Inclusion
  • The Administrator
  • The Reelection of the Governor, 1985
  • The Storm over the Wilentz Case
  • Kean Reforms Welfare
  • The Man with the Message
  • Citizen Kean
  • Chairing the 9-11Commission
  • Epilogue.

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