Achieve the Honorable : a Missouri Congressman's Journey from Warm Springs to Washington

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]
Subjects:
Skelton, Ike, > 1931-2013.
Skelton, Ike, > 1931-2013
United States. > Congress. > House > Biography.
United States. > Congress. > House
Since 1951
Legislators > United States > Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Political.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Legislative Branch.
Legislators
Politics and government
Missouri > Politics and government > 1951-
Missouri
United States
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • A wreck in Iraq
  • Roots
  • A sound from the sky
  • Polio and Warm Springs
  • Finishing third, and winning
  • Dad
  • College years
  • The law, Dewey, and Gene
  • Susie
  • Mr. Truman
  • Memorable courtroom moments
  • Back into politics
  • Building a more effective military
  • Missouri and the military
  • Into a new world
  • Attack on America
  • Chairman
  • Tuesday tsunami of 2010
  • Last Veterans Day salute
  • Into the future
  • Epilogue
  • Appendixes. My strong right arm ; My national security book list ; "Tree honors Skelton's wife," October 21, 2005 ; Letter to the president regarding Iraq ; Brother Boone's marriage service.

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