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Summary:

Shortly before Wyoming's Alan K. Simpson was elected majority whip of the United States Senate, he decided to keep a journal. Hardy has drawn extensively on Simpson's personal papers and nineteen-volume diary to write this unvarnished account of a storied life and political career.

Table of Contents:

• Pioneer spirits
• Creeping maturity
• Big steps
• Milestones
• Headliners and headaches
• Campaigns, columnists, and gazoos
• Land of high altitude and low multitude
• Mercenaries, emissaries, and eminent demean
• Cold war meltdown
• The VP thing
• The beat goes on
• Friend to the president
• Highs and lows
• Hand-to-hand combat
• Winds of change
• Rounding a corner.

Author/Creator:

Hardy, Donald Loren, 1945-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Shooting from the lip: the life of senator Al Simpson [by Hardy, D.L.]

Subjects:

Simpson, Alan K.

United States Congress — Senate — Biography

Legislators — United States — Biography

Legislators — Wyoming — Biography

United States — Politics and government — 1977-1981

United States — Politics and government — 1981-1989

United States — Politics and government — 1989-

Wyoming — Politics and government

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 442-446) and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

E840.8.S5448 H37 2011eb

ISBNs:

9780806182780 (electronic bk.)
0806182784 (electronic bk.)
9780806142111 (hardcover, alk. paper) [Invalid]
0806142111 (hardcover, alk. paper) [Invalid]
9780806143200 (paper) [Invalid]
0806143207 (paper) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

812926438

Other Control Numbers:

EBC3571228 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp9736908