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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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Skelton, Ike, 1931-2013
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbia : Carbondale : The State Historical Society of Missouri ; Southern Illinois University Press, [2013]
Subjects:
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.
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