The Good Fight: Hard lessons from Searchlight to Washington

Reid, Senator Harry with Mark Warren

ISBN 10: 039915499X / ISBN 13: 9780399154997

Edité par G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 2008

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Stated First American Edition 2002. In addition, complete number line including number one. Hard cover in very good condition. Text block clean and tight. Book appears to have never been read. Contains black and white photos. Dust jacket likewise in very good condition; not price clipped. * From the book, "With liberals severed from their own history, conservatives have drawn on theirs--the principles of national chauvinism and moral complacency that America once rejected. The country will reject them again, and embrace the creed that brought it greatness before. But only if liberals remember what that means. It means an unyielding hostility to totalitarianism--and a recognition that defeating it requires bringing hope to the bleakest corners of the globe. And it means understanding that democracy begins at home, in a nation that does not merely preach about justice, but becomes more just itself.".

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Good Fight: Hard lessons from Searchlight to Washington
• Éditeur: G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York
• Date de parution: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 039915499X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780399154997
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First American Edition
• Impression: 1st Printing
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Biography
  • Politics & Government

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Synopsis

Book by Reid Harry Warren Mark

Biographie de l'auteur

Harry Reid was born in Searchlight, Nevada, in a small cabin without indoor plumbing, and attended a two-room elementary school until the eighth grade, when he started hitchhiking 45 miles across open desert to high school in Henderson, Nevada. Businessmen in Henderson helped him go on to college at Utah State University, and he went on to get a law degree from George Washington University, working full-time jobs in the House mailroom and then as a Capitol Police officer to support him and his family. After serving as Henderson’s City Attorney, at age 28 he was elected to the Nevada State Assembly, and then in 1970, at the age of 30, he became the state’s youngest Lieutenant Governor.

Runs for the U.S. Senate in 1974 and Las Vegas mayor in 1976 resulted in defeat, and Reid assumed his political career was over, until in 1977, the governor appointed him chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission, where for four years he made headlines with his unrelenting fight to clean up the gaming industry. He won the first of two terms to the House of Representatives in 1982, then was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986. Currently serving his fourth term, he was unanimously elected Senate Minority Leader in 2004 and, after the Democrats captured the Senate in 2006, Senate Majority Leader.

Mark Warren is Executive Editor of Esquire magazine, where he has worked since 1988, directing much of the magazine’s political writing. He also collaborated with Thomas P.M. Barnett on The Pentagon’s New Map, which originated with a story in Esquire, as well as Barnett’s Blueprint for Action. Born, raised and educated in Texas, Warren directed or worked on several national, state and political campaigns out of Austin from 1983 to 1988, and was also a chief of staff to a senator from Houston. He lives in New York City.