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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Conversations with Abner Mikva
    sub title: final reflections on Chicago politics, democracy's future, and a life of public service
  name:
    name part: Horwitt, Sanford D.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ksu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 197 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Abner Mikva was an Illinois lawmaker, U.S. judge and mentor to both Barack Obama and Elena Kagan. He is fondly remembered in Chicago politics for being told, after saying that nobody sent him, "We don't want nobody nobody sent." One of the country's leading liberal politicians for decades, Mikva served in all three branches of the federal government, nine years in the U.S. House of Representatives (following ten years in the Illinois House), fifteen years as a judge on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals and a year as the White House Counsel in the Clinton administration. After leaving politics, he taught law at the University of Chicago Law School and Northwestern University. President Obama awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014. During the final years of his life, his former speechwriter and longtime friend, Sanford Horwitt, author of biographies of Saul Alinsky and Russ Feingold, spoke with him about his battles with Daley political machine in Chicago, the mistake he made when the Nazis marched in Skokie, his struggles against the N.R.A. over gun control, the efforts he made as judge on behalf of civil rights, the challenges he faced under the Clinton administration, his assessment of Obama's presidency, his thoughts on aging and death and his unwavering commitment to a more democratic future. Conversations with Abner Mikva gives readers an unfiltered, intimate audience with one of the most influential figures in Democratic politics in the final decades of the twentieth century.
  table of contents: From rags to respect -- "We don't want nobody nobody sent" -- A rookie lawyer and Obamacare -- The "dumb kid" learns some hard lessons -- Watergate, Congress, and a liberal's laments -- When the nazis came marching in -- Scalia's big lie and beating the NRA -- Politicians in black robes and Judge Mikva's proudest decision -- The Clinton White House and Hillary's liberalism -- The making of a (possibly) great president -- Mikva's challenge for democracy's next generation -- The Mikva Challenge.
  note: Sanford D. Horwitt ; forewrod by Senator Dick Durbin.
  note: Includes index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-il
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Mikva, Abner J
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Congress.
      name part: House
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Illinois.
      name part: General Assembly.
      name part: House of Representatives
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Obama, Barack
    topic: Friends and associates
  subject:
    topic: Legislators
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Judges
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Legislators
    geographic: Illinois
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Jewish politicians
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    geographic: Chicago
    topic: Politics and government
    genre: Anecdotes
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Politics and government
    genre: Anecdotes
  classification: E840.8.M525 H67 2018
  classification: 328.73/092 B
  identifier: 9780700627387
  identifier: 0700627383
  identifier: 9780700627394 (ebook)
  identifier: 2018027418
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180723
    record change date: 20190422100046.0
    record identifier: in00004037018