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Heart of a patriot : how I found the courage to survive Vietnam, Walter Reed and Karl Rove
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A searing memoir of recovery and triumph by one of America's finest patriots, detailing his remarkable journey from smalltown Georgia to Vietnam to a U.S. Senate seat, his trajectory serving as sca...
A searing memoir of recovery and triumph by one of America's finest patriots, detailing his remarkable journey from smalltown Georgia to Vietnam to a U.S. Senate seat, his trajectory serving as scaffolding for a withering critique of the Bush administration's handling of September 11.
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- Creator
- Max Cleland, with Ben Raines
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009
- Physical Details
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- viii, 259 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781439126059, 1439126054
- OCLC
- ocn316028235
- 1 The Charge of the Light Brigade 7 -- 2 Beginnings 17 -- 3 Discovery 31 -- 4 Splendor in the Grass 37 -- 5 The Oval Office 45 -- 6 Vietnam 53 -- 7 Hanging in the Balance 59 -- 8 Lz Home 65 -- 9 Walter Wonderful 77 -- 10 The Hopeless 89 -- 11 The Candidate 107 -- 12 State Senator 117 -- 13 To Care for Him who has Borne the Battle 127 -- 14 A Job for Life 135 -- 15 A Splendid Misery 145 -- 16 Turning Point 159 -- 17 The Bush Era 167 -- 18 "We're Going to War" 179 -- 19 The Last Race 187 -- 20 An Infamous Commission 201 -- 21 "We Are Drowning in War" 215 -- 22 Band of Brothers 233 -- 23 Swift-Boated 243 -- 24 A Time to Heal 249
Subjects
- Cleland, Max, 1942-2021.
- United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography.
- United States. Veterans Administration -- Officials and employees -- Biography.
- Legislators -- United States -- Biography.
- Disabled veterans -- United States -- Biography.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Veterans.
- Veterans -- Civil rights -- United States.
- Legislators -- Georgia -- Biography.