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• W67061778 abstract "The Education of a Senator: Everett McKinley Dirksen. By Everett McKinley Dirksen. Foreword by Howard H. Baker, Jr. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1998. Pp. li, 256. Cloth, $29.95.) Everett Dirksen is a genuine political icon. A major player in the nation's public life for over thirty years, he ranks historically with the likes of Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, Robert LaFollette, and Robert Taft. Yet it was not until 1995, that a scholarly account of his career appeared in the form of Edward and Frederick Schapsmeiers' Dirksen of Illinois: Senatorial Statesman, and much of that was based upon an unpublished autobiography tentatively titled So You Want To Be A Senator? Now at last Dirksen's interpretation of his own remarkable life and career has been made available. Sadly, he did not have the time before his death in 1969, for a complete exposition of his life, and this book finishes with his election to the Senate in 1950. Structured chronologically, it is a mix of autobiography, anecdotes, and political insights. Perhaps most striking is the tone of the writing that reveals a surprisingly artistic person whose worldview was unfailingly optimistic. This theme is especially clear in the recitation of his rise to public prominence. Beginning as one of several children of working class German immigrants in Pekin, Illinois, he became almost a case study of what used to be called the American Dream. Through hard work, study, an ability to speak, and a willingness to take chances he managed to progress first to a successful local business, then subsequently to the Pekin city council, to Congress (1933-1949), and finally to the United States Senate (19511969). In Dirksen's account there was an almost Calvinist predestination in his ultimate election to the Senate, or at the very least, it was the realization of what he understood to be the central theme of his adult life. At no time does he dwell upon the negative. For instance, he passes over with humor the very real threats to himself and his family as German-Americans during World War I, by attributing them chiefly to his mother's stubborn refusal to take down the honored picture of Kaiser Wilhelm II! He is equally nonchalant about the risks of his military service. Enlisting four months before the United States entered the war, he was later commissioned a lieutenant in France and endured gas attacks, artillery barrages, and the almost suicidal hazards of being a spotter in a balloon, all of which he describes without great emotion. Similarly, he treats in a relatively light-hearted manner the onset of eye disease in the late 1940s that came close to blinding him and led to his leaving Congress. …" @default.
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