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Author Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978.

Title The education of a public man : my life and politics / Hubert H. Humphrey ; edited by Norman Sherman
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©1991

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 391 pages)
Contents Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: A Day of Waiting -- BOOK ONE: In the Middle of This Great Big Continent -- 1 Prairie Land, Prairie People -- 2 Never a Pill without an Idea -- 3 The Banks Closed Early -- 4 The Loss of Home -- 5 Don't Ever Admit That You Don't Know How to Dance -- 6 Eating Mistakes -- 7 Pills, Hogtone, and Nose Drops -- 8 Together We Can Do Things -- 9 With Dad's Blessings, with Muriel's Bounty -- 10 Into Huey Long's South -- 11 I've Got a Job Now, and I'm Paying Taxes
12 We're Trying to Find a Candidate for Mayor13 We Must Unite -- 14 I'm the Mayor -- 15 Why Would Anyone Shoot at Me? -- 16 Bringing a Party Together -- 17 The Bright Sunshine of Human Rights -- BOOK TWO: On the Banks of the Potomac -- 18 My Principles Offended, My Personality Enraged -- 19 Compromise Is Not a Dirty Word -- 20 Tolerance If Not Affection -- 21 Three Wise Men -- 22 Quit Fooling Around with People You Can't Depend On -- 23 Feel Free to Attack Me Anytime -- 24 The Loyal Opposition -- 25 It Is a Bone in My Throat
26 A Cold Winter in Wisconsin27 In the Hills and Hollows of West Virginia -- 28 Cracking the Whip -- 29 Let Us Continue -- 30 Out of the Shadows -- 31 Let's Go Over to the White House for a Nightcap -- BOOK THREE: Next Door to Power -- 32 Vice President: And One Viewpoint on Vietnam -- 33 One Place, One Man -- 34 The Politics of Joy -- 35 I Gather You Are Not Asking My Advice -- 36 The Better Part of Being Vice President -- 37 A Lesson or Two -- 38 The Privilege -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F
GH -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
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Subject Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978.
SUBJECT Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 fast
Subject BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
SUBJECT United States -- Biography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139912
Subject United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780816683581
0816683581