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AND I HAVEN'T HAD A BAD DAY SINCE
By: Charles B. Rangel
From the Streets of Harlem to the Halls of Congress
Thomas Dunne Books
April 2007
On Sale: April 3, 2007
320 pages
ISBN: 0312372523
EAN: 9780312372521
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
In this inspiring and often humorous memoir, Charles Rangel, the outspoken Democratic congressman from Harlem--now the chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee--tells about his early years on Lenox Avenue, being awarded a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart for wounds sustained in a horrific Korean War battle (the last bad day of his life, he says), and his many years in Congress. A charming, natural storyteller, Rangel recalls growing up in Harlem, where from the age of nine he always had at least one job, including selling the legendary Adam Clayton Powell's newspaper; his group of streetwise sophisticates who called themselves Les Garçons; and his time in law school--his decison to attend was made as much to win his grandfather's approval as to establish a career. He recounts as well his life in New York politics during the 1960s and yhe grueling civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery.
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