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Author Cleland, Max, 1942-2021

Title Heart of a patriot : how I found the courage to survive Vietnam, Walter Reed and Karl Rove / Max Cleland, with Ben Raines.

Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster, [2009]
©2009

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY CLELAND    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  B CLELAND, MAX    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  B CLELAND    Check Shelf
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Adult Department  B CLEAND CLE    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Biography  B CLELAND    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  362.43 CLE    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  92 CLELAND, MAX    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  BIOG CLELAND, MAX    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Biographies  B CLELAND    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  B-CLELAND, M.    Check Shelf
Edition First Simon and Schuster hardcover edition.
Description viii, 259 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Foreword: An open letter to America's veterans -- The charge of the light brigade -- Beginnings -- Discovery -- Splendor in the grass -- The Oval Office -- Vietnam -- Hanging in the balance -- LZ home -- Walter wonderful -- The hopeless -- The candidate -- State Senator -- To care for him who has borne the battle -- A job for life -- A splendid misery -- Turning point -- The Bush era -- "We're going to war" -- The last race -- An infamous commission -- "We are drowning in war" -- Band of brothers -- Swift-boated -- A time to heal.
Summary A searing memoir of recovery and triumph by one of America's finest patriots, detailing his remarkable journey from smalltown Georgia to Vietnam to a U.S. Senate seat, his trajectory serving as scaffolding for a withering critique of the Bush administration's handling of September 11.
Subject Cleland, Max, 1942-2021
Legislators -- United States -- Biography.
United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography.
United States. Veterans Administration -- Officials and employees -- Biography.
Disabled veterans -- United States -- Biography.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Veterans.
Veterans -- Civil rights -- United States.
Legislators -- Georgia -- Biography.
Added Author Raines, Ben.
ISBN 9781439126059 alkaline paper
1439126054 alkaline paper
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