Frontispiece
Book Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chronology of Senator Philip J. Rock’s Career
Introduction: Try to Be Fair and Evenhanded
1. They Told Me It Wasn’t My Turn
2. Getting My Opportunity in Springfield
3. Battling Walker and Fighting for Children
4. My Finest Accomplishment
5. A Scandal I Didn’t Deserve
6. The Crazy Eight Emerge
7. A Move to Oak P
8. Finally, the Senate Presidency
9. Choosing Leaders and Saving Chrysler
10. A Redistricting Fight
11. Going National and Beefing Up Our Party
12. Speaker Madigan
Gallery of Images
13. Getting Behind the Tax Increase of 1983
14. Boosting Regional Transportation
15. A U.S. Senate Race against Paul Simon
16. Year of Major Education Reform
17. The Debacle of the 1986 Elections
18. Illinois Women in Government
19. The Cubs and the Sox
20. Another Tax Increase and Another Mayor
21. Riverboats and Governor Edgar
22. The Final Year
Epilogue: After the Senate
Appendix
Notes
References
Index
Author Bios