Title Heroes, hacks, and fools : memoirs from the political inside / Ted Van Dyk

Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 306 p., [16] p. of plates ) Contents Depression kids -- Caught up in the Cold War -- A new generation takes over -- Helping HHH -- The great society -- Vietnam and little else -- 1968 -- A near miss -- In transition -- Crusade and catastrophe -- Strange presidents, Nixon and Carter -- The counterrevolution proceeds -- Storm cleanup and new storm -- A new Jacksonian era, part one -- A new Jacksonian era, part two -- Escape from the capital -- A new century -- Not the same country -- Who will lead? -- The democratic message Summary "Ted Van Dyk, a shrewd veteran of countless national political and policy fights, casts fresh light on many of the leading personalities and watershed events of American public life since JFK. He was a Pentagon intelligence analyst during the Berlin Crisis of 1961 and an aide to Jean Monnet and other leaders of the movement for European unity before serving at the Johnson White House as Vice President Hubert Humphrey's senior advisor and alter ego. He was involved in that administration's Great Society triumphs and Vietnam tragedy." "In the late 1960s Van Dyk moved to Columbia University as vice president to help quell campus disorders which threatened the university. Over a period of 35 years he was a senior advisor to presidential candidates Humphrey, McGovern, Carter, Ted Kennedy, Mondale, Hart and Tsongas; contributed regular essays to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Fortune, and other national publications; and led two national think tanks. In 2001 the Bellingham, Washington, native returned to the Northwest to write a regular editorial-page column for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer."--Jacket Notes "A Samuel and Althea Stroum book"--Jacket Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Van Dyk, Ted, 1934- Van Dyk, Ted, 1934- Van Dyk, Ted 1934- Van Dyk, Ted. Democratic Party (U.S.) -- Biography Democratic Party (U.S.) Democratic Party USA USA Präsident Political consultants -- United States -- Biography Political activists -- United States -- Biography Political culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century Presidents -- United States -- Election -- History -- 20th century Political campaigns -- United States -- History -- 20th century Journalists -- United States -- Biography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Elections. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General. Journalists Political activists Political campaigns Political consultants Political culture Politics and government Presidents -- Election Politischer Berater Wahlkampf United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989. United States -- Politics and government -- 1989- United States Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works) Autobiographies Biographies History Autobiographies. Autobiographies. Form Electronic book LC no. 2021694607 ISBN 9780295989709 029598970X

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