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A Life in Politics
Regan Books
September 2006
On Sale: August 29, 2006
Featuring: Trent Lott
320 pages
ISBN: 0060599324
EAN: 9780060599324
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Mastering the game and weathering the storms -- a
riveting and candid memoir from one of washington's true
insiders For more than thirty years, Trent Lott
of Mississippi has been one of the dominant figures in
American political life. From the moment he was elected to
the House of Representatives in 1972, he has been a leader
in the conservative movement that has changed the course of
the nation. From his years in Congress to his ascent to
majority leader of the Senate -- and his decision to leave
that post in the heat of controversy -- Herding Cats
is the frank and revealing chronicle of a unique political
life. Lott's story bridges an extraordinary time in
American history. As a fraternity leader during the
integration of the University of Mississippi, he helped
contain the violence that accompanied James Meredith's
enrollment as the university's first African American
student. As a congressman during Watergate, he mounted a
fierce defense of Richard Nixon -- until Gerald Ford quietly
counseled him to think twice. A passionate advocate of
smaller government, Lott describes his painful choice to
support Gerald Ford over his challenger Ronald Reagan in the
1976 election -- and his delight in helping lead the
revolution that followed Reagan's win in 1980. Yet it
was in his dramatic engagements with the Clinton
administration that Lott found his greatest victories -- and
challenges. Working in secret through political adviser Dick
Morris, Lott reveals, he persuaded Clinton to accept health
insurance and welfare reform laws, along with spending cuts
that balanced the national budget. But he was aghast when
years of work on a tobacco settlement were scuttled by the
White House in 1997 -- possibly because of Al Gore's desire
to exploit tobacco as a political issue. With surprising
candor, Lott portrays his fruitful working partnership with
Democratic leader Tom Daschle during the Clinton
impeachment, and again in the hours after the attacks of
September 11, 2001. And he describes in painful detail his
decision to resign as majority leader after his remarks at
Senator Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday party -- a move he
made when it became clear that the Bush White House had
circled the wagons against him. Marked by the same
straight-talking style and good humor he has shown
throughout his career in public service, Trent Lott's
Herding Cats is the memoir of a true master of
American political life.
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