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04553aam a22006138i 4500 001 9583DD260F2511E9BB56EF4997128E48 003 SILO 005 20190103010119 008 180723s2018 ksu 001 0beng 010 $a 2018027418 020 $a 0700627383 020 $a 9780700627387 035 $a (OCoLC)1032024543 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d HUC $d UKMGB $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-il 050 00 $a E840.8.M525 $b H67 2018 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Horwitt, Sanford D. 245 10 $a Conversations with Abner Mikva : $b final reflections on Chicago politics, democracy's future, and a life of public service / $c Sanford D. Horwitt, foreword by Senator Dick Durbin. 263 $a 1811 264 1 $a Lawrence, Kansas : $b University Press of Kansas, $c [2018] 300 $a x, 197 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 500 $a Includes index. 505 0 $a From rags to respect -- "We don't want nobody nobody sent" -- A rookie lawyer and Obamacare -- The "dumb kid" learns some hard lessons -- Watergate, Congress, and a liberal's laments -- When the nazis came marching in -- Scalia's big lie and beating the NRA -- Politicians in black robes and Judge Mikva's proudest decision -- The Clinton White House and Hillary's liberalism -- The making of a (possibly) great president -- Mikva's challenge for democracy's next generation -- The Mikva Challenge. 520 $a "Abner Mikva was an Illinois lawmaker, US judge, and mentor to both Barack Obama and Elena Kagan. He is fondly remembered in Chicago politics for being told, after saying that nobody sent him, "We don't want nobody nobody sent." One of the country's leading liberal politicians for decades, Mikva served in all three branches of the federal government: nine years in the US House of Representatives (following ten years in the Illinois House), fifteen years as a judge on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, and a year as the White House Counsel in the Clinton administration. After leaving politics, he taught law at the University of Chicago Law School and Northwestern University. President Obama awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014. During the final years of his life, his former speechwriter and longtime friend, Sanford Horwitt--author of biographies of Saul Alinsky and Russ Feingold--spoke with him about his battles with Daley political machine in Chicago, the mistake he made when the Nazis marched in Skokie, his struggles against the N.R.A. over gun control, the efforts he made as judge on behalf of civil rights, the challenges he faced under the Clinton administration, his assessment of Obama's presidency, his thoughts on aging and death, and his unwavering commitment to a more democratic future. Conversations with Abner Mikva gives readers an unfiltered, intimate audience with one of the most influential figures in Democratic politics in the final decades of the twentieth century."--Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Mikva, Abner J. 610 10 $a United States. $b House $b House $v Biography. 610 10 $a Illinois. $b House of Representatives $b House of Representatives $v Biography. 600 10 $a Obama, Barack $x Friends and associates. 600 17 $a Mikva, Abner J. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00103291 600 17 $a Obama, Barack. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00348231 610 17 $a Illinois. $b House of Representatives $b House of Representatives $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00532783 610 17 $a United States. $b House. $b House. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00536930 650 0 $a Legislators $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Judges $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Legislators $z Illinois $v Biography. 650 0 $a Jewish politicians $z United States $v Biography. 651 0 $a Chicago $x Politics and government $v Anecdotes. 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $v Anecdotes. 650 7 $a Friendship $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00935174 650 7 $a Jewish politicians. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01742153 650 7 $a Judges $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00984490 650 7 $a Legislators. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00995828 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 651 7 $a Illinois. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01205143 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a Anecdotes. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423876 655 7 $a Biography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423686 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231021012238.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190905041139.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9583DD260F2511E9BB56EF4997128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search