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Item specifics
- Condition
- Book Title
- Promises Kept : A Memoir Hardcover Sidney S. McMath
- Features
- Signed
- ISBN
- 9781557287540
- Subject Area
- Political Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
- Publication Name
- Promises Kept : a Memoir
- Publisher
- University of Arkansas Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Subject
- Military / World War II, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), General, Political, Lawyers & Judges, American Government / State
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.6 in
- Item Weight
- 31.1 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 278 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
ISBN-10
1557287546
ISBN-13
9781557287540
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2503815
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
278 Pages
Publication Name
Promises Kept : a Memoir
Language
English
Subject
Military / World War II, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), General, Political, Lawyers & Judges, American Government / State
Publication Year
2003
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.6 in
Item Weight
31.1 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2003-014841
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
Sid McMath has been a significant regional and national figure for decades as a citizen, soldier, lawyer, and politician. His fascinating memoir serves to remind us of the American ideals that inspired his generation, and his life provides an example to which later generations can aspire." -Judge Morris Arnold, United States Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit, and author of The Rumble of a Distant Drum: The Quapaws and Old World Newcomers, 1673-1804 (Arkansas, 2000), "Sid McMath has been a significant regional and national figure for decades as a citizen, soldier, lawyer, and politician. His fascinating memoir serves to remind us of the American ideals that inspired his generation, and his life provides an example to which later generations can aspire." --Judge Morris Arnold, United States Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit, and author of The Rumble of a Distant Drum: The Quapaws and Old World Newcomers, 1673-1804 (Arkansas, 2000), Sid McMath has been a significant regional and national figure for decades as a citizen, soldier, lawyer, and politician. His fascinating memoir serves to remind us of the American ideals that inspired his generation, and his life provides an example to which later generations can aspire." —Judge Morris Arnold, United States Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit, and author of The Rumble of a Distant Drum: The Quapaws and Old World Newcomers, 1673–1804 (Arkansas, 2000)
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
976.7/053 B
Synopsis
Winner of the 2006 Booker Worthen Literary Prize and the 2004 Ragsdale Award. Sidney Sanders McMath was a pivotal figure not only in Arkansas history but in the history of the Democratic Party and of American law. Still vibrant and engaged in his nineties, he sets out his story in full for the first time: how he rose and fell in public office, and rose again as a lawyer seeking justice for ordinary people. McMath divides his story into four parts. In the first, he describes how his early life in rural Arkansas sparked his commitment to people. The second section describes his service to democracy in the military, including his commission in the U.S. Marines, a battlefield promotion in the Pacific and other honors, and his subsequent advancement to the rank of major general. The revealing third section details McMath's extraordinary life in politics, starting with his explosive debut in 1945, when he and other recent veterans dethroned one of Arkansas's most powerful and corrupt political machines. Later, as a two-term governor, he fulfilled this promise of reform and modernization: he brought the first roads and electricity to rural areas, fought the poll tax, and built the state's first medical center. He also helped change the party's rules so that black citizens could vote in primaries. McMath describes how he worked with President Truman to keep the segregationist Dixiecrats from taking over the Democratic Party--and the presidency. But here his story takes a dramatic turn: political opponents alleged bribery in his highway program, and although no indictments were handed down, McMath's political career ended. Arguing his case for the first time in fifty years, he sets the facts straight. McMath turned to the practice of law to fight for the people he had represented as governor. In the concluding section of the book he describes some of his most important cases, examples of how he put his life's experience, knowledge, and integrity in the service of those who had few resources. These stories show exactly why he has been honored with membership in such exclusive groups as the Inner Circle of Advocates as well as the presidency of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. Promises Kept shows us the excitement and the hard choices of real democracy, offering compelling human stories, new information on past conflicts, and the crucial perspective of a man at the center of history., Winner of the 2006 Booker Worthen Literary Prize and the 2004 Ragsdale Award. Sidney Sanders McMath was a pivotal figure not only in Arkansas history but in the history of the Democratic Party and of American law. Still vibrant and engaged in his nineties, he sets out his story in full for the first time: how he rose and fell in public office, and rose again as a lawyer seeking justice for ordinary people. McMath divides his story into four parts. In the first, he describes how his early life in rural Arkansas sparked his commitment to people. The second section describes his service to democracy in the military, including his commission in the U.S. Marines, a battlefield promotion in the Pacific and other honors, and his subsequent advancement to the rank of major general. The revealing third section details McMath's extraordinary life in politics, starting with his explosive debut in 1945, when he and other recent veterans dethroned one of Arkansas's most powerful and corrupt political machines. Later, as a two-term governor, he fulfilled this promise of reform and modernization: he brought the first roads and electricity to rural areas, fought the poll tax, and built the state's first medical center. He also helped change the party's rules so that black citizens could vote in primaries. McMath describes how he worked with President Truman to keep the segregationist Dixiecrats from taking over the Democratic Party-and the presidency. But here his story takes a dramatic turn: political opponents alleged bribery in his highway program, and although no indictments were handed down, McMath's political career ended. Arguing his case for the first time in fifty years, he sets the facts straight. McMath turned to the practice of law to fight for the people he had represented as governor. In the concluding section of the book he describes some of his most important cases, examples of how he put his life's experience, knowledge, and integrity in the service of those who had few resources. These stories show exactly why he has been honored with membership in such exclusive groups as the Inner Circle of Advocates as well as the presidency of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. Promises Kept shows us the excitement and the hard choices of real democracy, offering compelling human stories, new information on past conflicts, and the crucial perspective of a man at the center of history.
LC Classification Number
F411.M14 2003
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