09-11-2011, 11:59
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Confused on the publication date here. I guess 2000 is it, but these memoirs were written in 1972. Many references to that. Can't imagine why it sat unpublished for 40 years. This is the environmental wacko Al Gores daddy. Probably overall more liberal than the son. Served in both the house and the senate for 30 years, defeated in 1970. Seems like a fairly honest politician, but then that's his perspective. Stood up for what he believed in. The book is good in that it attempts to layout politics in the south from the civil war forward. Why people felt the way they did. Nice views on the civil rights movement and Vietnam war in the 60's.
Grade - B
next up - Gentlemen Of The Road by Michael Chabon