Here's where I Stand: A Memoir

Here's where I Stand: A Memoir
ISBN-10
0375508848
ISBN-13
9780375508844
Category
Conservatism
Pages
317
Language
English
Published
2005
Publisher
Jesse Helms Center
Author
Jesse Helms

Description

In a candid memoir, the controversial former North Carolina senator describes his three decades in Congress, the presidents with whom he worked, and the state of the Republican party and American politics, as he chronicles his rise from a poverty-stricken childhood to his influential position in Washington and reflects on the evolution of his personal political philosophy. 30,000 first printing.

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