Product Description: Jefferson County can proudly claim a large number of firsts when it comes to African Americans in national history. The raid to free slaves that served as a catalyst for the Civil War was led by abolitionist John Brown in Harpers Ferry...read more

Product Description: This autobiography follows West Virginia senator Robert C. Byrd’s experiences from his boyhood in the early 1920s to his election in 2000, which won him an unprecedented eighth term in the Senate. Within these pages, Senator Byrd offers commentary on national and international events that occurred throughout his long life in public service...read more

A congressman who has served for more than fifty years presents a cautionary argument against current Bush administration practices that he contends disrupt the balance of governmental power, limits public participation in decision-making, and compromises privacy, in a call to action that reminds readers of the Constitution's original purpose. Reprint. 70,000 first printing.

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