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Ed Muskie: Made in Maine

James L. Witherell

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Description:This insightful biography covers Edmund “Ed” Muskie’s life and career through his years as governorof Maine, ending when Muskie left for Washington to begin his senatorial career. Born in a papermill town in Maine’s western foothills, one of six children of a Polish immigrant tailor and a Polish-American mother whose English was worse than her husband’s, Muskie’s arc through his formativeyears to future greatness was singular and unpredictable—an American story that looks plausibleonly in hindsight. A Roman Catholic among Protestants, a Democrat among Republicans, introvertedand painfully shy, trained by his father to one day take over the family’s tailor shop, Ed seemsnevertheless to have known from boyhood that he had a different destiny to fulfill. Scraping his waythrough college and law school in the Great Depression—never sure in late summer whether hecould pay for the fall term despite his scholarships—Muskie never lost sight of that destiny, nor didhe later during his grinding campaigns for governor against the Republican machine.Jim Wetherill follows Muskie through his boyhood and formative years to age forty-five, whenMuskie finished his second term as governor and headed for the U.S. Congress. This stylish andwell-researched biography captures in intimate detail how the man who would write the Clean AirAct, foster the Clean Water Act, shape the nation’s environmental policy, and become America’sfirst Polish-American Secretary of State and vice-We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Ed Muskie: Made in Maine. To get started finding Ed Muskie: Made in Maine, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This insightful biography covers Edmund “Ed” Muskie’s life and career through his years as governorof Maine, ending when Muskie left for Washington to begin his senatorial career. Born in a papermill town in Maine’s western foothills, one of six children of a Polish immigrant tailor and a Polish-American mother whose English was worse than her husband’s, Muskie’s arc through his formativeyears to future greatness was singular and unpredictable—an American story that looks plausibleonly in hindsight. A Roman Catholic among Protestants, a Democrat among Republicans, introvertedand painfully shy, trained by his father to one day take over the family’s tailor shop, Ed seemsnevertheless to have known from boyhood that he had a different destiny to fulfill. Scraping his waythrough college and law school in the Great Depression—never sure in late summer whether hecould pay for the fall term despite his scholarships—Muskie never lost sight of that destiny, nor didhe later during his grinding campaigns for governor against the Republican machine.Jim Wetherill follows Muskie through his boyhood and formative years to age forty-five, whenMuskie finished his second term as governor and headed for the U.S. Congress. This stylish andwell-researched biography captures in intimate detail how the man who would write the Clean AirAct, foster the Clean Water Act, shape the nation’s environmental policy, and become America’sfirst Polish-American Secretary of State and vice-We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Ed Muskie: Made in Maine. To get started finding Ed Muskie: Made in Maine, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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