The Good Fight - Harry Reid, 9780399154997, hardcover, new
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
039915499X
ISBN-13
9780399154997
eBay Product ID (ePID)
12038259133
Product Key Features
Book Title
Good Fight : Hard Lessons from Searchlight to Washington
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Topic
Personal Memoirs, Political
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2008-007924
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
The
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal
328.73092 B
Grade To
UP
Synopsis
One of the remarkable books of this season— a tough, plainspoken, deeply passionate narrative by one of our most important national figures. We all know them: politicians’ books that read as if they’ve been cobbled together from old speeches. The Good Fightis as far from that as it is possible to get. In a voice that is flinty, real, and passion-filled, Senator Harry Reid tells the tale of two places, intertwining his own story, particularly his early life of deep poverty in the tiny mining town of Searchlight, Nevada—a place that boasted of thirteen brothels and no churches”—with the cautionary tale of Washington, D.C.: If I can do nothing greater in this book than explain those two places to each other, then I will have done something important.” Reid is inspired by obstacles. Brought up in a cabin without indoor plumbing, he hitchhiked forty-five miles across open desert to high school. He worked full-time as a Capitol Hill policeman to get through law school, after the school refused him financial aid, telling him he wasn’t cut out to be a lawyer. As head of the Nevada Gaming Commission, he led an unrelenting fight to clean up Las Vegas, despite four years of death threats —and much worse. And in Congress, Reid’s spent more than twenty-five years battling those who would take the country in the wrong direction: The radical ideologues degrade our government, so much so that when they are in charge of it, they do not know how to run it.” And, always, it all comes back to Searchlight: Who I am now, and what I am doing now, began in that town, with those people, in those mines.” This book is the story of a man who knows what a good fight is, because he has had to fight like hell for everything his whole life. It is populated by a rich and raucous cast of great and failed men, eccentrics, visionaries, gangsters, and presidents who make up his life and times. And it is for all those who not only like a good story, but wonder what we should do now in America., One of the remarkable books of this seasona a tough, plainspoken, deeply passionate narrative by one of our most important national figures. We all know them: politiciansa books that read as if theyave been cobbled together from old speeches. "The Good Fight" is as far from that as it is possible to get. In a voice that is flinty, real, and passion-filled, Senator Harry Reid tells the tale of two places, intertwining his own story, particularly his early life of deep poverty in the tiny mining town of Searchlight, Nevadaaaa place that boasted of thirteen brothels and no churchesaawith the cautionary tale of Washington, D.C.: aIf I can do nothing greater in this book than explain those two places to each other, then I will have done something important.a Reid is inspired by obstacles. Brought up in a cabin without indoor plumbing, he hitchhiked forty-five miles across open desert to high school. He worked full-time as a Capitol Hill policeman to get through law school, after the school refused him financial aid, telling him he wasnat cut out to be a lawyer. As head of the Nevada Gaming Commission, he led an unrelenting fight to clean up Las Vegas, despite four years of death threats aand much worse. And in Congress, Reidas spent more than twenty-five years battling those who would take the country in the wrong direction: aThe radical ideologues degrade our government, so much so that when they are in charge of it, they do not know how to run it.a And, always, it all comes back to Searchlight: aWho I am now, and what I am doing now, began in that town, with those people, in those mines.a This book is the story of a man who knows what a good fight is, because he has hadto fight like hell for everything his whole life. It is populated by a rich and raucous cast of great and failed men, eccentrics, visionaries, gangsters, and presidents who make up his life and times. And it is for all those who not only like a good story, but wonder what we should do now in America., In a voice that is real and passion-filled, Senator Reid tells the tale of two places, intertwining his own story of growing up in the tiny mining town of Searchlight, Nevada, with the cautionary tale of Washington, D.C. 8-page b&w photo insert.
LC Classification Number
E840.8.R447A3 2008
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