A Political Education: A Washington Memoir

Harry McPherson. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), $0 (495pp) ISBN 978-0-395-48900-0

McPherson was assistant counsel of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee in the late '50s and speechwriter and special counsel for LBJ. PW noted that this memoir's ``inside look at the Senate in the '50s is hard to top.'' Photos. (Nov.)

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