Achieve the Honorable : a Missouri Congressman's Journey from Warm Springs to Washington /

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Growing up during the Great Depression and World War II, Ike Skelton dreamed of joining the military. That dream was shattered when he contracted one of the most dreaded diseases of the era: polio. Far from abandoning hope, Skelton, after treatment at Warm Springs, Georgia, overcame his disability a...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Skelton, Ike, 1931-2013
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Columbia : Carbondale : The State Historical Society of Missouri ; Southern Illinois University Press, [2013]
Sujets:
Skelton, Ike, > 1931-2013.
Skelton, Ike, > 1931-2013
United States. > Congress. > House > Biography.
United States. > Congress. > House
Since 1951
Legislators > United States > Biography.
Parlementaires > États-Unis > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Political.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Legislative Branch.
Legislators
Politics and government
Missouri > Politics and government > 1951-
Missouri > Politique et gouvernement > 1951-
Missouri
United States
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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
  • Memorable courtroom moments
  • Back into politics
  • Building a more effective military
  • Missouri and the military
  • Into a new world
  • Attack on America
  • Chairman
  • Tuesday tsunami of 2010
  • Last Veterans Day salute
  • Into the future
  • Epilogue
  • Appendixes. My strong right arm ; My national security book list ; "Tree honors Skelton's wife," October 21, 2005 ; Letter to the president regarding Iraq ; Brother Boone's marriage service.

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