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...Harlem they called him the Big Rock: when it hit the water, the concentric waves kept going. Percy Sutton, who died Dec. 26 at 89, was a Renaissance man--a gentle, scholarly, tough social transformer; a long-distance runner; and a former Tuskegee Airman. In his long career as one of the nation's most influential black political and business figures, he made plenty of waves...
Knowing how to work the media, of course, has long been essential for a serious politician. But in 2010, a media career is itself a viable basis for political power--and even a political career...
...used to be that media skills were necessary but secondary to political seasoning. Ronald Reagan's TV-spokesman work on General Electric Theater marked him as a rising conservative star, but his political career unfolded over decades. In 1936, radio demagogue Father Charles Coughlin--the Glenn Beck of his time--founded a third party, with little success...
ROBERT BYRD, 92-year-old Democratic Senator from West Virginia, dedicating his vote in favor of the chamber's health care bill, which passed on Dec. 24, to the late Massachusetts Senator, who made health care reform the hallmark issue of his career...
...pictures of the career of Nancy Pelosi. See Game Change: Why Harry Reid Said What He Said