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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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Text | Request in advance | E840.8 .S69 2003 | Off-site |
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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
- 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