The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda - Hardcover

Wellstone, Paul David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679462945 ISBN 13: 9780679462941

Publisher: Random House Inc, 2001

Synopsis

The liberal senator defends the "politics of conviction" in a memoir of his life and political career that describes his battle for health care reform, education, and support for children.

About this title

About the Author:

Senator Paul Wellstone grew up in Arlington, Virginia, and attended the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. He was a professor of political science at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, for twenty-one years before being elected to the U.S. Senate in 1990. He and his wife, Sheila Ison, have three children and six grandchildren.

From the Inside Flap:

separate the lives you live from the words you speak,” Paul Wellstone told his students at Carleton College, where he was professor of political science.

Wellstone has lived up to his words as the most liberal man in the United States Senate, where for the past decade he has been the voice for improved health care, education, reform, and support for children. In this folksy and populist memoir, Wellstone explains why the politics of conviction are essential to democracy.

Through humor and heartfelt stories, Paul Wellstone takes readers on an unforgettable journey (in a school bus, which he used to campaign for door-to-door) from the fields and labor halls of Minnesota to the U.S. Senate, where he is frequently Republican Majority Leader Trent Lott’s most vocal nemesis. Along the way, he argues passionately for progressive activism, proves why all politics is personal, and explains why those with the deepest commitment to their beliefs win.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0679462945
• ISBN 13: 9780679462941
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 216