Education Of A Public Man: My Life and Politics

by Hubert Humphrey

University of Minnesota Press, 1991
Paper: 978-0-8166-1897-2
Library of Congress Classification E748.H945A3 1991
Dewey Decimal Classification 973.923092

ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC

ABOUT THIS BOOK

A candid look into the private and political life of Minnesota's native son.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CONTENTS

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Prologue: A Day of Waiting

BOOK ONE
“In the Middle of This Great Big Continent”

1
Prairie Land, Prairie People

2
Never a Pill without an Idea

3
The Banks Closed Early

4
The Loss of Home

5
“Don't Ever Admit That You Don't Know How to Dance”

6
Eating Mistakes

7
Pills, Hogtone, and Nose Drops

8
“Together We Can Do Things”

9
With Dad's Blessings, with Muriel's Bounty

10
Into Huey Long's South

11
“I've Got a Job Now, and I'm Paying Taxes”

12
“We're Trying to Find a Candidate for Mayor”

13
“We Must Unite”

14
I'm the Mayor

15
“Why Would Anyone Shoot at Me?”

16
Bringing a Party Together

17
The Bright Sunshine of Human Rights

BOOK TWO
On the Banks of the Potomac

18
My Principles Offended, My Personality Enraged

19
Compromise Is Not a Dirty Word

20
Tolerance If Not Affection

21
Three Wise Men

22
“Quit Fooling Around with People You Can't Depend On”

23
“Feel Free to Attack Me Anytime”

24
The Loyal Opposition

25
“It Is a Bone in My Throat”

26
A Cold Winter in Wisconsin

27
In the Hills and Hollows of West Virginia

28
Cracking the Whip

29
“Let Us Continue”

30
“Out of the Shadows”

31
“Let's Go Over to the White House for a Nightcap”

BOOK THREE
Next Door to Power

32
Vice President: And One Viewpoint on Vietnam

33
One Place, One Man

34
The Politics of Joy

35
“I Gather You Are Not Asking My Advice”

36
The Better Part of Being Vice President

37
A Lesson or Two

38
The Privilege

Afterword

Sherman, Norman

Notes

Index

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