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Author Skelton, Ike, 1931-2013.

Title Achieve the honorable : a Missouri congressman's journey from Warm Springs to Washington / Ike Skelton.

Publication Info. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2013]
2013

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Description 1 online resource (232 pages)
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Contents Cover; Jacket Flaps; Title Page; Copyright; Frontispiece; Contents; A Note; Acknowledgments; A Wreck in Iraq; Roots; A Sound from the Sky; Polio and Warm Springs; Finishing Third, and Winning; Dad; College Years; The Law, Dewey, and Gene; Susie; Mr. Truman; Gallery of Illustrations #1; Memorable Courtroom Moments; Back into Politics; Building a More Effective Military; Missouri and the Military; Into a New World; Gallery of Illustrations #2; Attack on America; Chairman; Tuesday Tsunami of 2010; One Last Veterans Day Salute; Into the Future; Epilogue; Appendixes - Index.
Appendix A: My Strong Right ArmAppendix B: My National Security Book List; Appendix C: "Tree Honors Skelton's Wife," October 21, 2005; Appendix D: Letter to the President regarding Iraq; Appendix E: Brother Boone's Marriage Service; Index; Back Cover.
Note Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 6, 2013).
Subject Skelton, Ike, 1931-2013.
United States. Congress. House -- Biography.
Legislators -- United States -- Biography.
Missouri -- Politics and government -- 1951-
Genre/Form Electronic books.
ISBN 9780809332830
9780809332847 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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