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Falling up : how a redneck helped invent political consulting / Raymond D. Strother.

Title
Falling up : how a redneck helped invent political consulting / Raymond D. Strother.
Author
Strother, Raymond.
Publication
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2003.

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Description
xviii, 306 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
The political consultant describes his life and career, first in Louisiana politics and then advising such presidential candidates as Gary Hart and Bill Clinton.
Series Statement
Politics@media
Uniform Title
Politics@media.
Subject
  • Strother, Raymond
  • USA Government
  • 1981-2001
  • Political consultants > United States > Biography
  • United States > Politics and government > 1981-1989
  • United States > Politics and government > 1989-1993
  • United States > Politics and government > 1993-2001
Genre/Form
  • Autobiography
  • Autobiographies
  • Biographies
  • Autobiographies.
Note
  • "Published in cooperation with the Kevin P. Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs."
  • Includes index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Growing Up in Texas 14 -- "Get the Hell Out of Here. You Have a Future" 40 -- The Louisiana Years 45 -- A Short Sheriff and a Long Pistol 51 -- The First Lessons 55 -- Light Bulbs and Bookmarks 66 -- Sunshine Rains on Me 70 -- James Carville and Iceberg Lettuce 85 -- The Awakening 94 -- Season of Discontent 102 -- The Kingfish Lends a Hand 117 -- What Is It You Do, Sir? 130 -- I Know Lloyd Bentsen, and He Is a Friend of Mine 141 -- A Pretty Woman with a Smudge on Her Cheek 155 -- The Clock Ticks 165 -- The Wise Ones Stumble Again 172 -- Bill, Hillary, Al, and the Gang 206 -- Buddy Roemer and the Silver Bullet 222 -- Where Dreams Go When They Die 234 -- Marriage on the Rocks, Up with a Twist 246 -- Kicking Ass and Taking Names 263 -- Buying Friends and Influencing People 268 -- Blue Chips, Dwarfs, and Survival 274 -- The Sea Creatures Crawl to the Shore 282 -- The Chill Winds of September 288.
ISBN
0807128562 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2002151296
OCLC
50859286
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library