Title

Speaker: lessons from forty years in coaching and politics.

Description

Denny Hastert is one of the most powerful men in America - and yet chances are you know little or nothing about him. And Denny Hastert likes it that way. Not because he has anything to hide, but because he doesn't care about who gets the credit. He just wants to get the job done for the American people.."In Speaker: Lessons from Forty Years of Coaching and Politics, Denny Hastert breaks his silence to tell a remarkable American story: how he grew up among the fields of Northern Illinois, made a name for himself as a high school and collegiate wrestler, became a high school wrestling and football coach and civics teacher...and eventually found himself teaching, and learning about, civics in the most important forum in the world - the United States Congress as Speaker of the House, the third most powerful man in government."--BOOK JACKET.

Identifier

2499702

089526126X

Creator

Hastert, Dennis

Source

Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection

Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.

Catalog record

Language

eng

Date

2004

Program air date: August 15, 2004

Publisher

Regnery

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

Text

Transcription of Annotations
Notes on front and endpapers concerning the author's family life, personality, thoughts on politicians he served with in the Senate and places the author traveled while a politician. Examples include: "I'm not a sermonizer and I don't give lectures on morality," "hate reading speeches," "I need to be on the House floor," "Upton Sinclair - The Jungle," "D.C. - people don't pay attention," "Gore caved on everything," and "Newt was impulsive." Annotations by Brian Lamb in the margins and underlining of pertinent phrases throughout the book.

Subject

"Hastert, Dennis, 1942-"

"Hastert, Dennis, 1942---Philosophy."

"United States. Congress. House--Speakers--Biography."

"Legislators--United States--Biography."

"Wrestling coaches--Illinois--Biography."

Relation

Original Booknotes interview

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