Governor Tom Kean : : From the New Jersey Statehouse to the 911 Commission / / Alvin S Felzenberg.

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 agenda as &quo...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2006]
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Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue
  • 1. The Early Years
  • 2. Kean Comes of Age
  • 3. In the Service of His Father
  • 4. Kean Finds His Calling
  • 5. The Precocious Freshman
  • 6. The Institutional Reformer
  • 7. In the Minority But Not in the Wilderness
  • 8. The Making of the Governor, 1981
  • 9. A Truncated Transition
  • 10. Kean Settles In
  • 11. Building New Jersey Pride
  • 12. The Education Governor
  • 13. Kean and the Arts
  • 14. Kean the Environmentalist
  • 15. The Politics of Inclusion
  • 16. The Administrator
  • 17. The Reelection of the Governor, 1985
  • 18. The Storm over the Wilentz Case
  • 19. Kean Reforms Welfare
  • 20. The Man with the Message
  • 21. Citizen Kean
  • 22. Chairing the 9–11 Commission
  • Epilogue
  • Interviews
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author