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A good fight / Sarah Brady with Merrill McLoughlin.

Title
A good fight / Sarah Brady with Merrill McLoughlin.
Author
Brady, Sarah, 1942-
Publication
New York : Public Affairs, c2002.

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Additional Authors
McLoughlin, Merrill
Description
x, 258 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports.; 24 cm.
Summary
The wife of Ronald Reagan's former press secretary describes life with her husband before and after he was shot by John W. Hinckley, Jr., the circumstances that led her to become a gun control activist, and her own battle with lung cancer.
Subject
  • Brady, Sarah, 1942-
  • Brady, James S
  • Brady, Sarah, 1942-2015
  • 1900-1999
  • Wives > United States > Biography
  • Presidential press secretaries > United States > Biography
  • Victims of crimes > United States > Biography
  • Gun control > United States > History > 20th century
  • Firearms > Law and legislation > History > United States > 20th century
Genre/Form
  • Biographies
  • History
Note
  • Includes index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The Day That Changed Everything -- "Miss Kemp, Don't You Worry" -- A Bear Named Brady -- An Inaugural Whirl -- God Bless the Greenfield Umbrella -- "Free the Bear" -- "I Hate John Hinckley!" -- The Turning Point -- The Birth of the Brady Bill -- Learning the Rules -- Cowardly Lions and Brainless Scarecrows -- Party Politics and Brass Knuckles -- "Just Tell Howard It's the Devil Herself" -- "If You Send Me the Brady Bill, I Will Sign It" -- The End of the Glory Years -- "You'll Be Seen by Millions" -- Growing Pains -- Back to Basics -- "This Is It, Then? My Life is Over?" -- Fighting Back -- Packing Heat -- Good News, Bad News -- Thanksgiving.
ISBN
1586481053
LCCN
^^2002017790
OCLC
  • 49002031
  • SCSB-13233469
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library