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02860aam a2200397Ii 4500 001 F823E1E8FAB611E8B830B36F97128E48 003 SILO 005 20190328032346 008 181128t20182018nyuaf 000 0aeng d 020 $a 0062571990 020 $a 9780062571991 035 $a (OCoLC)1076485042 040 $a NjBwBT $b eng $e rda $c OQX $d OQX $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d ACN $d BDX $d IOU $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 14 $a E840.8.D493 $b A3 2018 082 04 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Dingell, John D., $e author. 245 14 $a The dean : $b the best seat in the House / $c John D. Dingell with David Bender ; research editor, Frederick D. Paffhausen. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, $c [2018] 300 $a xviii, 315 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 520 $a Democrat John David Dingell served in the U.S. House of Representatives for fifty-nine consecutive years, from December 13, 1955 to January 3, 2015--the longest tenure of anyone in Congressional history. The son of a Congressman, Dingell worked in his father's office from childhood and became a house page in 1938, when he was just eleven years old. Retiring from Congress at eighty-nine, he has witnessed some of the most significant events that have shaped our nation and the world. In The Dean, Dingell looks back at his life at the center of American government and considers the currents that have reshaped our Congress and America itself, from his childhood memories of wartime Washington during the FDR administration, through the Reagan Revolution, to the election of the first black president, Barack Obama. Rife with a wisdom that literally only Dingell can possess, The Dean is the inspiring story of some of the greatest congressional achievements, of which Dingell was an integral part, and of the tough fights that made them possible. Dingell offers a persuasive defense for government, explaining how it once worked honorably and well--in defeating Hitler, sending us to the moon, ending segregation, and providing for the common good of all our citizens. He argues that to secure our future and continue our progress, we must work together once again--lessons desperately needed today. 600 10 $a Dingell, John D. 610 10 $a United States. $b House $b House $v Biography. 650 0 $a Legislators $z United States $v Biography. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Bender, David, $d 1955- $e author. 941 $a 6 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231021022155.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012022417.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909053146.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722054530.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190305060013.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20181208010307.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F823E1E8FAB611E8B830B36F97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search