Includes bibliographical references (p. 442-446) and index.
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.
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.
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