
The Wicked Wine of Democracy
A Memoir of a Political Junkie, 1948-1995
- 280 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
The Wicked Wine of Democracy is a frank account by a political operative and practicing lobbyist who in the early 1950s went from being a journalist in Seattle to working on the campaigns of such important political figures as Warren G. Magnuson, Henry "Scoop" Jackson, Frank Church, William Proxmire, and, finally, John F. Kennedy. He was so successful in managing the media for campaigns across the country that in 1957 the Washington Post labeled him "the Democrat's answer to Madison Avenue." After Kennedy's victory, Miller opened a lobbying office on Capitol Hill and took on clients as diverse as the United Steelworkers of America, the Western Forest Industries Association, and the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association. In this always revealing and often humorous memoir, Miller reports on the highlights and backroom conversations from political campaigns, labor negotiations, and lobbying deals to give an honest picture of how politics worked over his forty-year career in the nation's Capitol.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Foreword by Shelby Scates
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 - A Political Junkie
- 2 - Something Special—Dick Neuberger
- 3 - Maggie and the Tiger
- 4 - Frosty
- 5 - Prox
- 6 - Winning Big
- 7 - Revenge in Kentucky
- 8 - Hawaiian Odysseys
- 9 - A State That Time Forgot
- 10 - Outside on the Inside
- 11 - The Campaign and Aftermath
- 12 - A Lobbyist Is a Lobbyist Is a Lobbyist
- 13 - No Vestal Virgin in the Whorehouse
- 14 - The Spotted Owl and Other Varmints
- 15 - Mike's "Fish Bowl"
- 16 - Pirates of Pork
- 17 - Strike! Strike! Strike!
- 18 - Battle of the "Black Hats"
- 19 - The Wicked Wine of the Democratic Process
- 20 - Reflections
- A Word about Sources
- Index