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1981 · réf. 42686 — Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1981. First Printing Stated. Hardcover. Very good/Good. 24 cm. xii 2 528 pages. illus. index slight wear to DJ edges form letter from Javits to members of Congress laid in. About the author: Jacob Koppel Javits May 18 1904 – March 7 1986 was an American lawyer and politician from the U.S. state of New York. A member of the Republican Party he served in both chambers of the United States Congress a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1947 to 1954 and a member of the United States Senate from 1957 to 1981. He also served as Attorney General of New York from 1955 to 1957. Generally considered a liberal Republican he was often at odds with his own party. A supporter of labor unions the Great Society and the civil rights movement he played a key role in the passing of civil rights legislation. An opponent of the Vietnam War he drafted the War Powers Resolution in 1973. A personal memoir by the New York Republican senator depicts his long political career his many political colleagues including Dewey Rockefeller and LBJ the consequences of Watergate and the future of his party. Derived from a Kirkus review: Admirers of New York's longtime 1957-81 liberal Republican senator cherish their memories: Javits a formidable campaigner. He might have been a v-p or presidential candidate. Out to win a Congressional seat in 1946 after WW II exposure to "Potomac fever" Javits searched for a "Democratic district where the chances of a Republican victory would be slight--and where I a neophyte might be welcomed by the Republican organization." His upset victory then made him instantly known. Eager for local office after three terms in the House he overlooked a first Dewey rebuff to put himself forward again--on the basis that "I'm the only Republican who can beat FDR Junior" for the attorney-generalship. That triumph--the only victory on the ticket--set Javits up to run against Robert Wagner Jr. for the Senate. He speaks out too on the discomforts of being an urban liberal Republican legislator--committed to civil rights low-cost housing and rent control health care Israel internationalism--and specifically on how he progressed from "cold-shouldered outsider to respected insider" in the Senate. He hedges on Rockefeller and remains discreet about Nixon. Not without specifically political interest. Houghton Mifflin hardcover