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In 1944, when Harriet Keyserling arrived in the small South Carolina town of Beaufort, she found herself in an environment foreign to her. Coming to Beaufort with her husband - a native son and local physician - she was a liberal northerner in the conservative South and a Jew in a predominantly Chri...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Keyserling, Harriet, 1922-2010
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia, S.C : University of South Carolina Press, ©1998.
Colección:Understanding contemporary American literature Understanding Jack Kerouac
Temas:
Keyserling, Harriet, > 1922-2010.
Keyserling, Harriet, > 1922-2010
South Carolina. > General Assembly > Biography.
South Carolina. > General Assembly
Since 1951
Women legislators > South Carolina > Biography.
Legislators > South Carolina > Biography.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Legislators
Politics and government
Women legislators
American Literature.
English.
Languages & Literatures.
South Carolina > Politics and government > 1951-
Caroline du Sud > Politique et gouvernement > 1951-
South Carolina
Biography
Biography.
Biographies
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Family
  • The Keyserlings
  • Beaufort
  • County Council: the first step
  • Running for the legislature
  • Cast of characters
  • The Beaufort delegation
  • Past reformers
  • The first year
  • My first bills
  • Nuclear waste
  • Filibusters
  • The five-percent reserve fund caper
  • The education improvement act
  • NCSL: going national
  • Women and politics
  • The arts and state government
  • Other elections
  • Energy policies
  • Back to Beaufort
  • Index.

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