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This country : my life in politics and history / Chris Matthews.
Van Pelt Library PN4874.M25 A3 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Matthews, Chris, 1945- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Television journalists--United States--Biography.
- Television journalists.
- Politics and government.
- United States.
- Matthews, Chris, 1945-.
- Matthews, Chris.
- United States--Politics and government--20th century.
- United States--Politics and government--21st century.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 336 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2021.
- Summary:
- The former host of MSNBC's "Hardball with Chris Matthews" offers a panoramic portrait of post-World War II American politics through the story of his extraordinary life and career
- Matthews offers a panoramic portrait of post-World War II America through the lens of his life and career. Raised in a large Irish-Catholic family in Philadelphia, he became a Peace Corps graduate, moved to DC and began knocking on doors on Capitol Hill. There his eyes were opened to the game of big-league politics. As a speechwriter for President Carter, Matthews witnessed the triumphs and tragedies of that administration. As chief of staff to Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill, he received an on-the-job PhD in American politics during the Reagan years. He pioneered cable news with Hardball with Chris Matthews, which became a political institution for twenty years. -- adapted from jacket
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: BOOK I
- ch. One Irish Enough
- ch. Two God's Country
- ch. Three A Trip To Washington
- ch. Four We Were The Kids Who Hid Under Our Desks
- ch. Five Catholic School Back Then
- ch. Six Kennedy Vs. Nixon
- ch. Seven La Salle
- ch. Eight Holy Cross
- ch. Nine Chapel Hill
- ch. Ten Montreal
- ch. Eleven Swaziland
- ch. Twelve African Mysteries
- BOOK II
- ch. Thirteen Capitol Hill
- ch. Fourteen Us Capitol Police Officer
- ch. Fifteen Senate Legislative Assistant
- ch. Sixteen Miami
- ch. Seventeen First Campaign
- ch. Eighteen Freelance
- ch. Nineteen Brooklyn
- ch. Twenty Running Anyway
- ch. Twenty-One Back To Washington
- ch. Twenty-Two Jimmy Carter
- ch. Twenty-Three Kathleen
- ch. Twenty-Four Presidential Speech Writer
- ch. Twenty-Five Scramble
- ch. Twenty-Six Tip O'Neill
- BOOK III
- ch. Twenty-Seven Writer
- ch. Twenty-Eight San Francisco
- ch. Twenty-Nine White House Dinner
- ch. Thirty Hungary
- ch. Thirty-One Berlin Wall
- ch. Thirty-Two A Boomer As President
- ch. Thirty-Three A Farewell In North Cambridge
- ch. Thirty-Four Bringing Down Apartheid
- ch. Thirty-Five Television
- ch. Thirty-Six Mom
- ch. Thirty-Seven Clinton Redux
- ch. Thirty-Eight Good Friday
- ch. Thirty-Nine Millennial
- ch. Forty Attack On A September Morning
- ch. Forty-One A War Of Our Choosing
- ch. Forty-Two Barackobama
- ch. Forty-Three Duel
- ch. Forty-Four A Funeral In Rome
- ch. Forty-Five Thrill
- ch. Forty-Six Kathleen Matthews For Congress
- ch. Forty-Seven Trump
- ch. Forty-Eight Hardball
- ch. Forty-Nine This Country.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9781982134846
- 1982134844
- OCLC:
- 1252635925
- Publisher Number:
- 99987741454
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