Achieve the Honorable : a Missouri Congressman's Journey from Warm Springs to Washington / Ike Skelton.

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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Main Author: Skelton, Ike, 1931-2013
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbia : Carbondale : The State Historical Society of Missouri ; Southern Illinois University Press, [2013]
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