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From its frontier beginning, Phoenix was praised by dreamers, promoted by boosters and sold by hucksters. People were assured that the possibilities were limitless, and the future was whatever one wished to make of it. The key to that future consisted not only of industry and politics, but of diversity in lifestyle and development. Since the 1940s, Phoenix had typified the phenomental growth of the Southwest, booming to the nation's sixth-largest city - a desert metropolis.
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Philip VanderMeer received his master's and doctorate degrees from the University of Illinois. A faculty member at Arizona State University since 1985, he teaches political and community history at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He has written on state and local political history, and his publications include The Hoosier Politician (1985), as well as articles on state legislatures, congress, and California governor and Senator Hiram Johnson. His most recent essay, "Historical Patterns of Arizona Leadership," appeared in the Arizona Town Hall report, Building Leadership in Arizona.
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- PublisherHeritage Media Corporation
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 1886483698
- ISBN 13 9781886483699
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages232
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Phoenix Rising: The Making of a Desert Metropolis
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