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Nobody calls just to say hello : reflections on twenty-two years in the Illinois Senate /
A loyal partisan and highly principled public official whose career overlapped with those of many legends of Illinois politics-including Mayor Richard J. Daley, Governor James Thompson, and Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan-Democrat Philip J. Rock served twenty-two years in the Illinois Senate....
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
©2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontispiece; Book Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chronology of Senator Philip J. Rock's Career; Introduction: Try to Be Fair and Evenhanded; 1. They Told Me It Wasn't My Turn; 2. Getting My Opportunity in Springfield; 3. Battling Walker and Fighting for Children; 4. My Finest Accomplishment; 5. A Scandal I Didn't Deserve; 6. The Crazy Eight Emerge; 7. A Move to Oak P; 8. Finally, the Senate Presidency; 9. Choosing Leaders and Saving Chrysler; 10. A Redistricting Fight; 11. Going National and Beefing Up Our Party; 12. Speaker Madigan; Gallery of Images.
- 13. Getting Behind the Tax Increase of 198314. Boosting Regional Transportation; 15. A U.S. Senate Race against Paul Simon; 16. Year of Major Education Reform; 17. The Debacle of the 1986 Elections; 18. Illinois Women in Government; 19. The Cubs and the Sox; 20. Another Tax Increase and Another Mayor; 21. Riverboats and Governor Edgar; 22. The Final Year; Epilogue: After the Senate; Appendix; Notes; References; Index; Author Bios.