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Reclaiming the arid West : the career of Francis G. Newlands

Title: Reclaiming the arid West : the career of Francis G. Newlands / William D. Rowley.
Author: Rowley, William D.
Publication: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, ©1996.

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Description

xii, 199 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Widely noted for his role in the passage of the National Reclamation Act of 1902, Francis G. Newlands of Nevada was a champion of the growth of federal power in the modernization of America. One of the few liberal national Democrats at the beginning of the twentieth century, he is known as a key architect of the modern regulatory state. Newlands worked to irrigate the Nevada desert and other arid western states with nationally funded reclamation and dam-building projects. As a leading western Progressive, he supported national planning for the utilization of all the nation's water resources, the Progressive conservation cause espoused by Republican Theodore Roosevelt, and the supervision of private corporations by an enlarged and more powerful federal government. Yet he opposed Progressives on many issues, voicing suspicions about centralized banking, defending the right of private corporations to fair treatment by public regulatory agencies, even advocating the denial of suffrage to African Americans through the repeal of the Fifteenth Amendment. William Rowley's biography reveals a complicated and sophisticated man who successfully lived a dual political life under a cloud of personal and public scandal. It is a fascinating story of American politics in a time of immense national change.

Series Statement

The American West in the twentieth century

Uniform Title

American West in the twentieth century

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-193) and index.

Contents

Foreword / Martin Ridge and Walter Nugent -- I. Senator Newlands: First among the "Irrigation Cranks" -- II. Toward the Promises of California -- III. In Defense of Property -- IV. The "Wretched Case" -- V. Newlands as a Nevadan -- VI. More than Noble Words -- VII. Challenging the Old Guard -- VIII. With Water on His Wheel -- IX. Newlands: "A Model Democracy" -- X. The Road Ahead -- XI. Racism and Reform -- XII. Visions Won and Lost.

ISBN

0253330025
9780253330024
0253210380
9780253210388

LCCN

95034788

OCLC

ocm32892298
32892298
SCSB-14164982

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library