People from Ashland, Oregon - Vladimir Nabokov, John Backus, David Fincher, Winona Laduke, Les Aucoin, Eli Jaxon-Bear, Gangaji (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 45. Chapters: Vladimir Nabokov, John Backus, David Fincher, Winona LaDuke, Les AuCoin, Eli Jaxon-Bear, Gangaji, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Michael Ruppert, Jack Elam, Ann Curry, Neale Donald Walsch, Ty Burrell, Otto Klum, Jeremy Guthrie, Tai Babilonia, Craig Chaquico, Jenn Shelton, Earl T. Newbry, Lawson Fusao Inada, Angus L. Bowmer, Abel Helman, Kenneth B. Hobson, Bill Rauch, Peter J. Buckley, Darren Kavinoky, Johnny Gruelle, Scott Kelly, Alfred Peet, Rose Maddox, Leonard Levy, Emilio Delgado, Anthony Heald, Henry Woronicz, Jerry Turner, Dean Ing, Sonny Sixkiller, Mark Parent, Jennifer Moss, Frank C. High, Semyon Bilmes, Alice Di Micele, Dallen Bounds, Nicomi Nix Turner, Gay Jacobsen D'Asaro, Steve Mason, Chad Cota, Tim Leslie, Stephen Reno, Pete Belcastro, Alan Bates, Juan Carlos Romero Hicks, Don Barclay, Gary "Chicken" Hirsh, Lenn Hannon. Excerpt: Walter Leslie "Les" AuCoin (pronounced; born October 21, 1942), is an American politician and the first Democrat elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Oregon's 1st congressional district since it was formed in 1882. The seat has been held by a Democrat ever since. AuCoin's 18-year tenure-from the 94th United States Congress through the 102nd-is the sixth-longest in Oregon history. In his career, AuCoin took a prominent role in abortion rights, local and national environmental issues, multiple use management of federal forests, and national security. During the presidency of Ronald Reagan, he wrote the ban to stop Interior Secretary James Watt's plan to open the Pacific Outer Continental Shelf to oil exploration. AuCoin was an early advocate of diplomatic relations with The People's Republic of China and arms control with the Soviet Union, and a critic of U.S. support for the Nicaraguan Contras and the rightist government of El Salvador in the 1980s. At the time of his ret...