by ROBERT C. BYRD
foreword by Gaston Caperton
West Virginia University Press, 2015
eISBN: 978-1-940425-56-6 | Paper: 978-1-940425-54-2
Library of Congress Classification E840.8.B965A3 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification 328.73092

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

This autobiography follows West Virginia senator Robert C. Byrd’s experiences from his boyhood in the early 1920s to his election in 2000, which won him an unprecedented eighth term in the Senate. Within these pages, Senator Byrd offers commentary on national and international events that occurred throughout his long life in public service. 


His journey from the hardscrabble coalfields to the marbled halls of Congress has inspired generations of people in West Virginia and throughout the nation. From reading the stories of the Founding Fathers as a young boy by the light of a kerosene lamp to the swearing of an oath for more than a half-century to guard the US Constitution, Senator Byrd’s life is legendary. 


Until his death on June 28, 2010, Byrd stood by his principles, earning the affection of the people of his home state and the respect of Americans from all walks of life. With his beloved Erma ever by his side, Robert C. Byrd never forgot his roots, harkening back to those early lessons that he learned as a child of the Appalachian coalfields.


This new paperback edition includes a foreword by Gaston Caperton, governor of West Virginia from 1989–1997.



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