The Good Fight
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ISBN: 039915499X / Publisher: Putnam Adult, May 2008
The Senate Majority Leader presents a tale of Washington politics interspersed with the story of his own life, describing his impoverished rural childhood, his stint at the head of Nevada's Gaming Commission, and his decades in Congress.
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Ina voice that is flinty, real, and passion-filled, Senator Harry Reid tells the tale of two places, intertwining his own story, particularly his early life of deep poverty in the tiny mining town of Searchlight, Nevada, "a place that boasted of thirteen brothels and no churches," with the cautionary tale of Washington, D. C.: "If can do nothing greater in this book than explain those two places to each other, then I will have done something important."He is inspired by obstacles. Raised in a cabin without indoor plumbing, he hitchhiked forty five miles across open desert to high school. He worked full-time as a Capitol Hill policeman to get through law school, after the school refused him financial aid, telling him he wasn't cut out for the law. As head of the Nevada Gaming Commission, he led an unrelenting fight to clean up Las Vegas, despite four years of death threats and much worse. And in Congress, he's spent more than twenty-five years battling those who would take the country in the wrong direction.
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