Robert C. Byrd : child of the Appalachian coalfields / by Robert C. Byrd.

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CONTENTS -- FOREWORD TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION -- 1. CHILD OF THE APPALACHIAN COALFIELDS -- 2. THE DEPRESSION YEARS -- 3. A POLITICAL CAREER BEGINS -- 4. MR. BYRD GOES TO WASHINGTON -- 5. AROUND THE WORLD IN SIXTY-SIX DAYS -- 6. EXCELSIOR! -- 7. THE SAPLING GROWS TALL -- 8. STORMY WATERS -- 9. CLIMBING THE LEADERSHIP LADDER -- 10. A VISIT TO RUSSIA -- 11. MUDDY WATERS -- 12. A SUPREME COURT NOMINATION? -- 13. BUILDING WEST VIRGINIA PIECE BY PIECE -- 14. THE OLD ORDER CHANGETH -- 15. THE TOP RUNG�MAJORITY LEADER (1977)

16. SECOND FIDDLE17. BACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN -- 18. ELECTED PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE -- 19. A HAND ON THE PURSE STRINGS -- 20. BUILDING A NEW WEST VIRGINIA -- 21. WEST VIRGINIA ON THE GO -- 22. BITS AND PIECES -- 23. BUILDING A TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY WEST VIRGINIA -- 24. THE WINDS OF CHANGE -- 25. THE TIDE EBBS -- 26. FULL CIRCLE -- 27. THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE -- 28. DRIBS AND DRABS -- 29. LINE-ITEM VETO STRUCK DOWN -- 30. IN THE HEAT OF BATTLE -- 31. SEMPER FIDELIS -- AFTERWORD

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