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The negotiator : a memoir
Title:
The negotiator : a memoir
ISBN:
9781451691375
Edition:
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Description:
xiv, 400 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Contents:
Family. Head of falls ; Baby Joe and Mintaha become George and Mary ; The two penny bridge ; Front street ; Sports ; Everyone worked ; Elvira Whitten ; Robbie ; The trip to Bristol -- Maine. Maine ; Waterville ; The Lebanese ; Seeing Maine ; Bowdoin ; A brief interlude ; The army ; A light for Ingrid Bergman ; Georgetown law ; Muskie ; Back to Maine ; U.S. attorney and federal judge -- The senate years. Appointment to the senate ; Elizabeth Taylor's husband ; Election to the senate ; A Christmas decision ; Iran-Contra ; Divorce and remarriage ; Frank Sinatra's throat ; Reelection in 1988 ; My friend Bill Cohen ; Majority leader ; Talmadge ; Clean air ; The state of Altoona ; "An investment in our nation's future" ; Read my lips ; Two minor bills that had a major impact ; One road not taken, another opens -- Northern Ireland. Omagh ; Andrew's peace ; Henry Kissinger's poster -- No time for retirement. 9/11 ; Disney ; The Olympic games ; Baseball ; The middle east ; The scholars -- The art of negotiation. The art of negotiation ; The sound of your own voice ; Learn to listen ; Patience is a muscle ; Risk ; Chance ; Mount desert island.
Summary:
The former Maine senator and Senate majority leader describes his career spent orchestrating peace and negotiations in Northern Ireland and the Middle East and investigating the use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball. --Publisher's description.
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