Defying the Odds: An Independent Senator's Historic Campaign

By Harry F. Byrd

Book Overview

In 1970, Harry F. Byrd, Jr. refused the support of both major political parties and won the U.S. Senate seat in Virginia as an Independent candidate. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0966687000
• ISBN13: 9780966687002
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Howell Pr
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.8" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Splendid and to the point history by the man who made it.

A crisp, clear account of the former Senator's historic 1970 Senate race when he put principle ahead of expediency, and left the party of his fathers, because the party had left its principles, to run as an independent for the U.S. Senate from his native Virginia. Byrd enunciates his reasons and recounts the features of his campaign; a campaign in which he solidly out-polled the combined votes of the Democratic and Republican candidates. In a current Chapter, Byrd reviewing the current loss of political direction in Washington--including the manifest difference between Newt Gingrich's brand of Republicanism in 1994 and his lost way in 1998-- goes on to describe the circumstances, which might make it possible for an independent to be elected President in the near future. Those who are disastified with what is going on in Washington should consider this a must read!