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

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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Основен автор: Skelton, Ike, 1931-2013.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Columbia : Carbondale : The State Historical Society of Missouri ; Southern Illinois University Press, 2013.
Предмети:
Skelton, Ike, > 1931-2013.
United States. > Congress. > House > Biography.
United States. > Congress. > House.
Since 1951
Legislators > United States > Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Political.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Legislative Branch.
Legislators.
Politics and government
Missouri > Politics and government > 1951-
Missouri.
United States > .
Electronic books.
Biography.
Онлайн достъп: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=649597
Съдържание:
  • 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 wedding service.

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