The Senator's Other Daughter (Belles of Lordsburg #1)

The Senator's Other Daughter (Belles of Lordsburg #1) Review

Within the locket hanging near her heart is the secret that's broken it.

A life of peace and seclusion as the unknown Miss Denison. It's what Grace longed for even before her father banished her from Washington, D.C.

She just may have found it in Lordsburg, New Mexico--the small railroad town where people hide until the world stops looking. A place to send black sheep, skeletons in the closet, rebellious sons ... and wayward daughters whose secrets could ruin a father's precious political career.

Yet Grace's cherished anonymity is soon lost when she gets caught in the middle of a huge ruckus. And her life is anything but peaceful thanks to an ornery pet at her boarding house, a precocious young Mexican boy, and a cowboy who makes her want to run to him and from him at the same time.

When he learns the secret within her locket, will he break her heart too?

Tennessee Senators 1911-2001: Portraits of Leadership in a Century of Change

Tennessee Senators 1911-2001: Portraits of Leadership in a Century of Change Review

In this volume, current U.S. senator William Frist traces the life stories of seventeen Tennesseans who have served on Capitol Hill during the twentieth century. From the individual portraits of such prominent national figures as Howard Baker and Albert Gore, Jr., there emerges a larger picture of a state that has played a crucial role in shaping the modern political landscape of the U.S. and the world.

The Senator: My Ten Years with Ted Kennedy

The Senator: My Ten Years with Ted Kennedy Review

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In 1971 Richard Burke, a freshman at Georgetown University, volunteered his services to the offices of his political idol, Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts. Through ability, hard work, and dedication, Burke rose in the next four years to become one of the Senator's closest staff members. In 1977 he was made Kennedy's personal assistant; after his appointment in 1978 as administrative assistant - the youngest in the Senate - he came to know Edward M. Kennedy perhaps more intimately than anyone outside the closed circle of the Senator's family. He was often the last to see the Senator at night and the first to see him in the morning. This book is the account of what Richard Burke witnessed and experienced during his decade at the Senator's right hand. It is neither a full biography nor an examination of Kennedy's long career in government. Rather, it is the history of a young man who shared the Senator's professional and personal lives during a time marked by exhilarating public achievements and tragic secret misconduct. His story is not only the chronicle of a shattered idol, but of Richard Burke's own fall from grace, and eventual recovery. Burke does not shrink from confronting his own faults, and he agrees with the Senator: It is time for him to confront his.

Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator

Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator Review

Was Joe McCarthy a bellicose, shameless witch-hunter who whipped up hysteria, ruined the reputation of innocents, and unleashed a destructive carnival of smears and guilt-by-association accusations? Were McCarthy and McCarthyism the worst things to happen to American politics in the postwar era?

Or was McCarthy just a well-intentioned politician who seized a legitimate issue with the fervor of a true believer?

Perhaps something in between. For the first time, here is a biography of Joe McCarthy that cuts through the cliches and misconceptions surrounding this central figure of the "red scare" of the fifties, and reexamines his life and legacy in the, light of newly declassified archival sources from the FBI, the National Security Agency, the U.S. Congress, the Pentagon, and the former Soviet Union. After more than four decades, here is the untold story of America's most hated political figure, shorn of the rhetoric and stereotypes of the past.

"Joseph McCarthy" explains how this farm boy from Wisconsin sprang up from a newly confident postwar America, and how he embodied the hopes and anxieties of a generation caught in the toils of the Cold War. It shows how McCarthy used the explosive issue of Communist spying in the thirties and forties to challenge the Washington political establishment and catapult himself into the headlines. Above all, it gives us a picture of the red scare far different from and more accurate than the one typically portrayed in the news media and the movies.

We now know that the Communist spying McCarthy fought against was amazingly extensive -- reaching to the highest levels of the White House and the top-secret Manhattan Project. Herman hasthe facts to show in detail which of McCarthy's famous anti-Communist investigations were on target (such as the notorious cases of Owen Lattimore and Irving Peress, the Army's "pink dentist") and which were not (including the case that led to McCarthy's final break with Whittaker Chambers). When McCarthy accused two American employees of the United Nations of being Communists, he was widely criticized -- but he was right. When McCarthy called Owen Lattimore "Moscow's top spy," he was again assailed -- but we now know Lattimore was a witting aid to Soviet espionage networks. McCarthy often overreached himself. "But McCarthy was often right."

In "Joseph McCarthy," Arthur Herman reveals the human drama of a fascinating, troubled, and self-destructive man who was often more right than wrong, and yet in the end did more harm than good.

The Senator and the Sin Eater

The Senator and the Sin Eater Review

Seneca Falls, West Virginia, is a picturesque town. Tucked between the foothills of the Blue Ridge and Allegheny Mountains, it lives in the shadow of the Dunning and Munroe families, mining moguls who have competed for coal in the region for generations. It is a place Joshua Chacón would rather forget. The scorned biracial stepson of the Dunning dynasty, Chacón has acquired a national reputation and a Pulitzer Prize for his books revealing political skullduggery. Drawn back to the hometown he abandoned by news of the mysterious murder of his half brother, Senator Stewart Dunning, Josh soon becomes entangled in a murder plot thick with the power politics of the ruling families of West Virginia's mining country.

"Any time you pick up a book with Bill Buchanan's name on the cover, there is one thing of which you can be certain: Colonel Buchanan always deals with his characters kindly and gently. The Senator and the Sin Eater, his last book before his death, provides a perfect example of this. . . . [It] is much more than a murder mystery. It is an examination of what sometimes goes wrong in a small, friendly town."--Tony Hillerman, from the Foreword

Senator Mansfield: The Extraordinary Life of a Great American Statesman and Diplomat

Senator Mansfield: The Extraordinary Life of a Great American Statesman and Diplomat Review

A spellbinding biography of one of the most powerful and dignified men ever to come to DC—Senator Mike Mansfield.

Mike Mansfield's career as the longest serving majority leader is finally given its due in this extraordinary biography. In many respects, Mansfield's dignity and decorum represent the high-water mark of the US Senate: he was respected as a leader who helped build consensus on tough issues and was renowned for his ability to work across the aisle and build strong coalitions. Amazingly, he would have breakfast every morning with a member of the opposing party.

Mansfield was instrumental in pushing through some of the most influential legislation of the twentieth century. He was at the helm when the Senate passed landmark legislation such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the creation of Medicare, and the nuclear test ban treaty. Mansfield played a crucial role in shaping America's foreign policy, corresponding with JFK about his opposition to the growing presence of the US in Southeast Asia. As ambassador to Japan, his conversations with Cambodia and China paved the way for Nixon's historic trip to China in 1972.

Pen and ink portraits of the senators, assemblymen, and state officers, of the state of New York

Pen and ink portraits of the senators, assemblymen, and state officers, of the state of New York Review

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1857 Excerpt: ... and an eloquent debater; he attends the Dutch Reformed church; is married. He is of small stature, has light hair, large blue eyes and a pale face; he is a sociable, companionable, free-hearted man, with a multitude of friends. GEORGE S. NICHOLS Represents the Tenth Senatorial District, having been sent there by an American constituency.. Sometime since he went to California, and returned with his pockets filled with rocks. He is a farmer, about thirty-seven years of age, rather under the common stature, is of th& nervous temperament, has auburn hair and blue eyes, seldom speaks unless it be to introduce a bill, and then a few words brings him to his seat. He is on the insurance committee; and is highly respected in all the relations of life. His place of residence is Athens, Greene county. BENSON OWEN Was born in Homer, Cortland county, N. Y., March 10th, 1807. His father, Lewis S. Owen, was a physician, who resided in that town about 50 years. Mr. Owen was admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court of this state in 1830; practiced his profession in Allegany county some three or four years, when he removed with his family to the state of Ohio, where he resided until 1844, when he moved to Seneca Falls and engaged in the foundry and machine business. He has not pursued his profession as a business since his return to this state; was collector of tolls on the Cayuga and Seneca Canal at Seneca Falls during 1854 and 1855. He has a family, consisting of a wife and one child. In person he is five feet ten inches in hight, weighs about 130 pounds. He is a member of the Republican party and belongs to the anti-slavery wing of the old Whig' party; is not a member but a regular attendant and supporter of the Presbyterian church. He is a man of sound mind and acute rea...