Robert C. Byrd

by Byrd, Robert C.

• ISBN13: 9781933202006
• ISBN10: 1933202009
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-06-30
• Publisher: West Virginia Univ Pr

Summary

The West Virginia University Press is proud to present United States Senator Robert C. Byrd's biography, CHILD OF THE APPALACHIAN COALFIELDS. The book follows Senator Byrd's experiences from his boyhood in the early 1920s to his election in 2000, which won him an unprecedented eighth term in the U.S. Senate. Along the way, Senator Byrd offers commentary on national and international events that occurred throughout his long life in public service.

Table of Contents

Child of the Appalachian Coalfields	1	(19)
The Depression Years	20	(21)
A Political Career Begins	41	(15)
Mr. Byrd Goes to Washington	56	(11)
Around the World in Sixty-Six Days	67	(26)
Excelsior!	93	(21)
The Sapling Grows Tall	114	(46)
Stormy Horizons	160	(34)
Climbing the Leadership Ladder	194	(40)
A Visit to Russia	234	(13)
Muddy Waters	247	(49)
A Supreme Court Nomination?	296	(16)
Building West Virginia Piece by Piece	312	(31)
The Old Order Changeth	343	(34)
The Top Rung---Majority Leader (1977)	377	(37)
Second Fiddle	414	(32)
Back in the Saddle Again	446	(22)
Elected President Pro Tempore	468	(5)
A Hand on the Purse Strings	473	(37)
Building a New West Virginia	510	(23)
West Virginia on the Go	533	(24)
Bits and Pieces	557	(12)
Building a 21st Century West Virginia	569	(27)
The Winds of Change	596	(18)
The Tide Ebbs	614	(29)
Full Circle	643	(21)
The Return of the Native	664	(12)
Dribs and Drabs	676	(21)
Line-Item Veto Struck Down	697	(18)
In the Heat of Battle	715	(36)
Semper Fidelis	751	(20)
Afterword	771