The Dean : : the Best Seat in the House
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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.
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PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2018]
Year Published: 2018
Description: 315 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits ; 24 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780062571991
0062571990
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Bender, David, 1955-
SUBJECTS
Dingell, John D.
United States. -- House -- Biography.
Legislators -- Biography.