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Author Rodriguez, Armando M.

Title From the barrio to Washington : an educator's journey / by Armando Rodriguez as told to Keith Taylor
Published Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 196 pages) : illustrations
Contents Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; 1: The Early Years, 1921-34; 2: Junior and Senior High School, 1934-40; 3: An Immigrant, an Emigrant, and a Soldier, 1940-43; 4: The Girl from Across the Street, 1944-45; 5: A Civilian Again, 1945; 6: A College Man, 1946-49; 7: A Teacher, an Administrator, and Almost a Politician, 1949-62; 8: A Political Animal, 1962-66; 9: Help from the Anglos; 10: Working for Lyndon, 1968; 11: Travels with Randolph Hearst, 1969-70; 12: Coping with Washington Society and Its Politics, 1971-73; 13: President of East Los Angeles College, 1973-78
14: Back to the Seat of Power, 1978-8315: Retirement Doesn't Mean Not Working, 1983-2001; 16: Capitalists in the Soviet Union, 1988-2001; 17: Christy and Roddy; 18: My Final Retirement (So Far), 2006-7; Index; Back Cover
Summary Rodriguez recalls his inspirational journey from his childhood as a poor immigrant to the highest levels of the department of education under four presidents
Notes Includes index
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Subject Rodriguez, Armando M.
SUBJECT Rodriguez, Armando M. fast
Subject School principals -- United States -- Biography
Hispanic American school principals -- Biography
Politicians -- United States -- Biography
Hispanic American politicians -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Educators.
EDUCATION -- Comparative.
EDUCATION -- History.
Hispanic American politicians
Hispanic American school principals
Politicians
School principals
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
Author Taylor, Keith, 1930-2017
LC no. 2007027489
ISBN 9780826343833
082634383X
6613949108
9786613949103
1283636646
9781283636643