Desk 88 eight progressive senators who changed America
Since his election to the U.S. Senate in 2006, Ohio's Sherrod Brown has sat on the Senate floor at a mahogany desk with a proud history. In Desk 88, he tells the story of eight of the Senators who were there before him. Despite their flaws and frequent setbacks, each made a decisive contribution to...
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2019.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: The origins of Desk 88
- Hugo Black: finding light in the shadows
- Thoughts from Desk 88
- Theodore Francis Green: a traitor to his class
- Thoughts from Desk 88
- Glen Taylor: the singing cowboy from Kooskia
- Thoughts from Desk 88
- Herbert H. Lehman: pursuing a different family business
- Thoughts from Desk 88
- Al Gore, Sr.: leading from the South
- Thoughts from Desk 88
- William Proxmire: a workhorse and a showhorse
- Thoughts from Desk 88
- Robert F. Kennedy: a voice for those without a voice
- Thoughts from Desk 88
- George McGovern: feeding the hungry
- Thoughts from Desk 88
- Further thoughts from Desk 88-about 2020 and beyond
- Epilogue: Carving a place in history.
