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URL:https://kmun.org/events/nw-authors-series-presents-stephen-forrester/
SUMMARY:NW Authors Series Presents Stephen Forrester
DESCRIPTION:Author to Discuss Life of ‘Nearly Forgotten’ but ‘Signifi
 cant’ Oregon Senator\nOregon’s reputation as a liberal\, environmental
 ly progressive state can be traced to U.S. Sen. Richard L. Neuberger\, who
 se election in 1954 has impacted Oregon politics for the past 72 years.\nF
 or 40 years\, author and former newspaper publisher Steve Forrester resear
 ched Neuberger’s life. He will discuss his book\, “Richard Neuberger: 
 Oregon Politics and the Making of a U.S. Senator\,” at 2:00pm on Saturda
 y\, February 21st in the Cannon Beach Library.\nForrester’ s talk is a f
 ree presentation\; attend in person at the library or watch it on the libr
 ary’s website\, cannonbeachlibrary.org.\nA consequential but nearly forg
 otten figure in Oregon history\, Neuberger was\, Forrester says\, “one o
 f the most significant Oregonians of the first half of the 20th century.
 ”\nForrester was a journalist for 50 years\, 33 of those years as editor
  and publisher of The Daily Astorian. He and four colleagues founded the W
 illamette Week newspaper in 1974\, and in 1978 he operated a news bureau i
 n Washington\, D.C. Earlier in his life\, Forrester was a page for Neuberg
 er in the U.S. Senate.\nThe first Democrat to be elected to the U.S. Senat
 e from Oregon in 40 years\, Neuberger was an outspoken liberal who support
 ed workers’ rights and civil rights. He shaped Oregon’s renowned conse
 rvation policies and developed the state’s modern Democratic party.\nNeu
 berger was also a journalist from an early age\, writing for The Oregonian
  as a teenager and for The New York Times while still in college. While a 
 student at the University of Oregon in 1933\, Neuberger\, a Jew\, visited 
 Hitler’s Germany for seven weeks and interviewed relatives and others ab
 out the rising violence toward Jews in the country. Neuberger’s stories 
 about his visit appeared in national publications throughout the United St
 ates. His editor at The Nation magazine called it “an epoch-making artic
 le.”\n“All that I saw and heard in Germany substantiates the conclusio
 n that the Jews are finished for many generations in that country\,” Neu
 berger wrote.\nA prolific freelance writer\, Neuberger published six books
  and over 700 articles before his death of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1960\,
  nine months before the end of his Senate term. He was 47.\nHis wife\, and
  political ally\, Maurine Brown Neuberger\, was elected to his Senate seat
  in 1960. At the time\, she was only the fifth woman ever to be elected to
  the U.S. Senate.
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LOCATION:Cannon Beach Library\, 131 N. Hemlock\, Cannon Beach\, Oregon\, 97
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