| Description |
x, 322 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
On the street where I lived -- Leaving home -- Ships at sea -- Love and law -- A short primer in Vermont politics -- Maverick Republican -- Making environmental history -- David and Goliath -- The realities of power -- After Nixon -- The walking wounded -- Leo Ryan, baby seals, Solzhenitsyn, and energy wars -- Musical homes -- Trickle-down economy, the Contras, and the evil empire -- The second time around -- Protecting tradition, "The October surprise", Clarence Thomas, and working for an international nuclear test ban -- Building the case for education in the shadow of Gingrich's Contract with America -- Again the maverick : health care and impeachment -- The Singing Senators -- The days before the switch -- Making history -- The reaction -- September 11 -- My challenge to the country. |
| Subject |
Jeffords, James M.
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United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography.
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Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) -- Biography.
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Legislators -- United States -- Biography.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-
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Vermont -- Politics and government -- 1865-
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| Added Author |
Daley, Yvonne.
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Coffin, Howard, 1942-
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| ISBN |
074322843X |
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