Call Him Mac: Ernest W. McFarland, the Arizona Years
Autor Gary L. Stuart Cuvânt înainte de Michael Daly Hawkinsen Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 oct 2018
The political life of Ernest W. McFarland—lawyer, judge, senator, governor, Arizona Supreme Court justice, and businessman—is well documented. Less known is his life as a family man, country lawyer, rural judge, and visionary.
In Call Him Mac, Gary L. Stuart renders a nuanced portrait of a young, ambitious, restless, and smiling man on the verge of becoming a political force headed for the highest levels of governance in Arizona and America. Stuart reveals how Mac became an expert on water law and a visionary in Arizona’s agricultural future. Using interviews with friends and family and extensive primary source research, Stuart spotlights Mac’s unerring focus as a loving husband, father, and grandfather, even in times of great personal tragedy. Mac’s commitments to his family mirrored his sense of fiduciary duty in public life. His enormous political successes were answers to how he dealt with threats to his own life in 1919, the loss of his first wife and three children in the 1930s, and a political loss in 1952 that no one saw coming.
Stuart writes the little-known story of how Arizona’s culture and citizens shaped this energetic, determined, likable lawyer. The fame Mac created was not for himself but for those he served in Arizona and beyond. Mac’s unparalleled political success was fermented during his early Arizona years, the bridge that brought him to his future as an approachable and likable elder statesman of Arizona politics.
In Call Him Mac, Gary L. Stuart renders a nuanced portrait of a young, ambitious, restless, and smiling man on the verge of becoming a political force headed for the highest levels of governance in Arizona and America. Stuart reveals how Mac became an expert on water law and a visionary in Arizona’s agricultural future. Using interviews with friends and family and extensive primary source research, Stuart spotlights Mac’s unerring focus as a loving husband, father, and grandfather, even in times of great personal tragedy. Mac’s commitments to his family mirrored his sense of fiduciary duty in public life. His enormous political successes were answers to how he dealt with threats to his own life in 1919, the loss of his first wife and three children in the 1930s, and a political loss in 1952 that no one saw coming.
Stuart writes the little-known story of how Arizona’s culture and citizens shaped this energetic, determined, likable lawyer. The fame Mac created was not for himself but for those he served in Arizona and beyond. Mac’s unparalleled political success was fermented during his early Arizona years, the bridge that brought him to his future as an approachable and likable elder statesman of Arizona politics.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781941451052
ISBN-10: 1941451055
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 11 b&w photos
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Arizona Press
Colecția Sentinel Peak Books
ISBN-10: 1941451055
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 11 b&w photos
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Arizona Press
Colecția Sentinel Peak Books
Notă biografică
Gary L. Stuart is a lawyer, law professor, and author of eleven books, including The Gallup 14, a novel based on a notorious 1930s court case in New Mexico; Innocent Until Interrogated: The True Story of the Buddhist Temple Massacre and the Tucson Four; Miranda: The Story of America’s Right to Remain Silent; and Anatomy of a Confession: The Debra Milke Case. He lives in Phoenix.
Cuprins
Prologue
1. Mac: Sooner Born and Sooner Bred, 1894
2. Mac Joins the U.S. Navy, 1917
3. Mac Moves to Phoenix, 1919
4. Mac: Law, Political Science, and Sociology, 1919
5. Mac and Florence, Arizona, 1924
6. Mac Becomes a Lawyer, 1921
7. Mac Runs for Pinal County Attorney, 1924
8. Mac and Tommy Fulbright, 1929
9. Mac and the Eva Dugan Case, 1930
10. Mac, Clare, and Their Children, 1925 to 1929
11. Mac and Henry Fountain Ashurst in the 1930s
12. Mac and the Winnie Ruth Judd Case, 1933
13. Mac Runs for Pinal County Judge Twice, 1930 and 1934
14. Mac and Edna, 1939
15. Mac and Henry Fountain Ashurst, 1940
16. Mac’s Primary Campaign Against Henry Fountain Ashurst, 1940
17. Mac’s Retail Politics, 1940
18. Mac’s General Election Campaign for the U.S. Senate, 1940
19. Mac Goes to Washington, DC, December 1940
20. Mac on the Cusp of the U.S. Senate, 1940
21. Mac as Senator, 1941 to 1952
22. Mac and Barry Goldwater, 1952
23. Mac, 1954 to 1964: Governor, Businessman, Lawyer, Farmer, Grandfather
24. Mac and the Arizona Supreme Court, 1964
25. Mac’s Grandchildren
26. Mac and KTVK, 1971
27. Mac’s Memorial at the State Capitol, 1998 and 2015
Epilogue, 2017
Finis Mac
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
1. Mac: Sooner Born and Sooner Bred, 1894
2. Mac Joins the U.S. Navy, 1917
3. Mac Moves to Phoenix, 1919
4. Mac: Law, Political Science, and Sociology, 1919
5. Mac and Florence, Arizona, 1924
6. Mac Becomes a Lawyer, 1921
7. Mac Runs for Pinal County Attorney, 1924
8. Mac and Tommy Fulbright, 1929
9. Mac and the Eva Dugan Case, 1930
10. Mac, Clare, and Their Children, 1925 to 1929
11. Mac and Henry Fountain Ashurst in the 1930s
12. Mac and the Winnie Ruth Judd Case, 1933
13. Mac Runs for Pinal County Judge Twice, 1930 and 1934
14. Mac and Edna, 1939
15. Mac and Henry Fountain Ashurst, 1940
16. Mac’s Primary Campaign Against Henry Fountain Ashurst, 1940
17. Mac’s Retail Politics, 1940
18. Mac’s General Election Campaign for the U.S. Senate, 1940
19. Mac Goes to Washington, DC, December 1940
20. Mac on the Cusp of the U.S. Senate, 1940
21. Mac as Senator, 1941 to 1952
22. Mac and Barry Goldwater, 1952
23. Mac, 1954 to 1964: Governor, Businessman, Lawyer, Farmer, Grandfather
24. Mac and the Arizona Supreme Court, 1964
25. Mac’s Grandchildren
26. Mac and KTVK, 1971
27. Mac’s Memorial at the State Capitol, 1998 and 2015
Epilogue, 2017
Finis Mac
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Recenzii
“An iconic Arizona story worthy of Gary L. Stuart’s talents.”—Mary M. Schroeder
“Stuart captures the essence of a humble man who, despite innumerable tragedies, accomplished perhaps more than any other leader in modern history. Ernest McFarland was the workhorse of Arizona—while other politicians were simply show horses.”—Chris Hartman
"Stuart’s new book presents fresh insights about McFarland, an extraordinary individual who overcame illness and tragedy to accomplish, gracefully, so much vital work.”—Douglas C. Towne
“Arizona legal historian Gary L. Stuart has reached a new pinnacle of success with his latest biography, Call Him Mac: Ernest W. McFarland, the Arizona Years. Stuart’s scholarship and passion for the ‘service above self’ life of Senator McFarland—and the role he played in shaping post–World War II America and his beloved state of Arizona—will remind readers of why we owe so much to the ‘Greatest Generation.’”—Stuart Rosebrook
“Between 1936 and 1971 Ernest McFarland had the rare distinction of winning the triple crown of politics in the United States. He was elected to the U.S. Senate, where he became the Senate majority leader, and he served as Arizona’s governor and as the state’s chief justice of the Supreme Court. He shined in all areas, leading the effort to pass the federal GI Bill, advocating for the state’s economic and environmental issues, and writing the court’s Miranda decision to protect the rights of the accused to an attorney. His career certainly ranks him at the top of the many illustrious Arizona politicians of the twentieth century.”—James W. Johnson
“Stuart captures the essence of a humble man who, despite innumerable tragedies, accomplished perhaps more than any other leader in modern history. Ernest McFarland was the workhorse of Arizona—while other politicians were simply show horses.”—Chris Hartman
"Stuart’s new book presents fresh insights about McFarland, an extraordinary individual who overcame illness and tragedy to accomplish, gracefully, so much vital work.”—Douglas C. Towne
“Arizona legal historian Gary L. Stuart has reached a new pinnacle of success with his latest biography, Call Him Mac: Ernest W. McFarland, the Arizona Years. Stuart’s scholarship and passion for the ‘service above self’ life of Senator McFarland—and the role he played in shaping post–World War II America and his beloved state of Arizona—will remind readers of why we owe so much to the ‘Greatest Generation.’”—Stuart Rosebrook
“Between 1936 and 1971 Ernest McFarland had the rare distinction of winning the triple crown of politics in the United States. He was elected to the U.S. Senate, where he became the Senate majority leader, and he served as Arizona’s governor and as the state’s chief justice of the Supreme Court. He shined in all areas, leading the effort to pass the federal GI Bill, advocating for the state’s economic and environmental issues, and writing the court’s Miranda decision to protect the rights of the accused to an attorney. His career certainly ranks him at the top of the many illustrious Arizona politicians of the twentieth century.”—James W. Johnson
Descriere
The political life of Ernest W. McFarland—lawyer, judge, senator, governor, Arizona Supreme Court Justice, and businessman—is well documented. Call Him Mac offers the lesser-known story of a family man, country lawyer, rural judge, and visionary who helped shape the state of Arizona.