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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Thornburgh, Dick. Where the evidence leads. Pittsburg, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2003 (OCoLC)607040245 Online version: Thornburgh, Dick. Where the evidence leads. Pittsburg, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2003 (OCoLC)608281145 |
| Named Person: | Dick Thornburgh; Dick Thornburgh |
| Material Type: | Biography, Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Dick Thornburgh |
| ISBN: | 0822942208 9780822942207 |
| OCLC Number: | 51977963 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | xii, 386 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Beginnings -- Tragedy and recovery -- Running for office -- Federal prosecutor -- Serving in Washington, D.C. -- Running for governor : the primary -- The victory! -- A rough start : Three Mile Island -- Reshaping Pennsylvania's economy -- A governor's agenda -- The politics of the governorship -- Harvard and a return to Washington -- Battling white-collar crime -- Crime-fighting in the department of justice -- A global effort -- The ADA and other domestic endeavors -- Criticisms : fair and unfair -- Running for senate -- A sojourn at the United Nations -- Return to the law and other pursuits. |
| Responsibility: | Dick Thornburgh. |
Abstract:
"Perhaps best known as the attorney general who returned respectability to the office in the late 1980s, Dick Thornburgh has been a key participant in and observer of American political and legal life for more than three decades. In Where the Evidence Leads he candidly reveals the joys, frustrations, mistakes, and accomplishments of his career in public service." "In 1964, frustrated that the radical right threatened to take over the Republican Party - to its detriment - Thornburgh, then a lawyer in downtown Pittsburgh, began complaining to anyone who would listen about the problems with the GOP. When finally challenged to do something about it, he set out on a course that would ultimately take him to the highest corridors of power in the United States.".
"A strong proponent of civil rights and racial equality; a tireless spokesman for the GOP tenets of the individual, the free-enterprise system, fiscal responsibility, strong state and local governments, and a combination of toughness and compassion at home and abroad; a strict adherent to the overriding importance of the rule of law; these are but some of the ways Dick Thornburgh defines himself and his life in Where the Evidence Leads."--BOOK JACKET.
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