Portland: People, Politics, and Power, 1851-2001 - Softcover

Jewel Lansing (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870711180 ISBN 13: 9780870711183

Publisher: Oregon State University Press, 2005

Synopsis

This is the definitive book on Portland's political history, beginning in 1845 when a 16-lot townsite was laid out on the bank of the Willamette River and continuing through the sesquicentennial of Portland city government.
Lansing shows that Portland's path to its present place as the twenty-eighth largest city in the United States, with a deserved reputation as one of the nation's most livable cities, has not always been smooth. Corruption, profiteering, and wide-open vice characterized the City of Roses at the turn of the twentieth century, and every era has had its own controversies and rivalries: disputes over railroad franchises and rights-of-way, women's suffrage, public versus private power, the Chinese Exclusion Act, Prohibition, and the siting of freeways, to name just a few.

About this title

Review:

""The standard reference for individuals interested in basic facts about Portland's development."

About the Author:

Jewel Lansing served as City of Portland Auditor from 1983 to 1986 and as Multnomah County Auditor from 1975 to 1982. She is a founder of WIN-PAC, a political action committee supporting first-time Oregon women legislative candidates. She is the author of five other books, including two about women and politics, and a murder mystery set in Portland City Hall. She and her husband, Ron, a law professor at Lewis and Clark College, have lived in Oregon for 46 years.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oregon State University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0870711180
• ISBN 13: 9780870711183
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 277