Senator Dennis Deconcini
Subtitle: From the Center of the Aisle
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: October 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780816525690
Subjects: Legislators; Senate; DeConcini, Dennis; Biography / Autobiography; United States - 21st Century; Biography & Autobiography; Political; Biography/Autobiography; Personal Memoirs; General; United States; United States; Biography; Congress
Description: The three-term Democratic Senator from Arizona presents a memoir of his tenure in the Congress, emphasizing his position as a centrist, which helped him engineer consensus on the Panama Canal Treaty of 1977. In addition to reflecting on his achievements while in the Senate, he also spends considerable time discussing the banking and political contribution scandal involving himself and the other "Keating Five."