An Uncertain Tradition: U.S. Senators from Illinois, 1818-2003, published in 2003, provides biographical and political portraits of the state's senators, including Stephen A. Douglas, Richard Oglesby, John A. Logan, Everett Dirksen, Adlai Stevenson III, Paul Simon, and Richard Durbin. The second edition will bring the book up to date, with new material on Paul Simon, Richard Durbin, and Peter Fitzgerald, as well as completely new sections on Roland Burris, Barack Obama, and Illinois's newest senator, Mark Kirk. To present ...
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An Uncertain Tradition: U.S. Senators from Illinois, 1818-2003, published in 2003, provides biographical and political portraits of the state's senators, including Stephen A. Douglas, Richard Oglesby, John A. Logan, Everett Dirksen, Adlai Stevenson III, Paul Simon, and Richard Durbin. The second edition will bring the book up to date, with new material on Paul Simon, Richard Durbin, and Peter Fitzgerald, as well as completely new sections on Roland Burris, Barack Obama, and Illinois's newest senator, Mark Kirk. To present this new material, Robert E. Hartley has given Durbin his own chapter--20. A Leader Among Democrats--and created a new chapter 21, "An Extended Period of Unrest," that covers Fitzgerald, Obama, Burris, and Kirk.
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