The good fight
Subtitle: hard lessons from Searchlight to Washington
By: Harry Reid ; with Mark Warren
Contributors: Warren, Mark, contributor
Publisher: Berkley Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9780425227572
Subjects: Biography; Legislators; Politics and government; History; Biographies; Parlementaires; Politique et gouvernement; United States. Congress. Senate; United States; États-Unis. Congress. Senate; États-Unis
Description: After a childhood of shocking poverty in Searchlight, Nevada - a place that boasted of "thirteen [brothels] in all, and no churches" - Harry Reid completed law school, working as a policeman to pay his way. He faced death threats as the head of the Nevada Gaming Commission trying to clean up Las Vegas. Eventually he rose to become Senate Majority Leader in Washington - without ever forgetting the mining town he came from, or the battles he fought along the way. This is that rare book written by a politician that is more than a glorified press release. It is an extraordinary American story - told in a voice that is flirty, real, and filled with passion. (Publisher).
Table of contents: title: A meeting at the White House; title: Searchlight; title: The Minority; title: The outside world; title: Social insecurity; title: The cases nobody would take; title: The nuclear option; title: The best day, the worst day, and the Mob; title: The past meets the present; title: The future; title: Epilogue : The Obama Era.