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...mate, Joe Lieberman, and his wife, Hadassah, flew overnight from Los Angeles following the Democratic National Convention to begin our journey. Despite only a few hours of sleep on the plane, the cheers of the delegates filled our hearts overnight and buoyed us with energy. Daybreak in La Crosse, Wisconsin, the embarkation point for our cruise, also proved inspiring as thousands of campaign supporters lined the shore...
...traveled the river, we met local residents who make their living on and around the Mighty Mississippi, including dockmasters, fishermen and environmentalists. Friday night, as our boat approached its last stop of the day in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, a team of talented water skiers formed a pyramid to guide us into shore. Thousands of cheering local residents - enough to fill three towns from the area - watched, and listened, and stayed late into the night to share their hopes and dreams for the future with...
...mystery set forth in the book's opening pages and resolved only at the end. In 1919, while serving as a nurse in a Milwaukee hospital for severely wounded soldiers, Amanda Starkey suffers some sort of nervous indisposition and goes home to rest at her parents' farm in rural Wisconsin. They have both recently died, victims of the 1918 flu epidemic. The only people living there now are Mathilda Neumann, Amanda's younger sister, and Mattie's three-year-old daughter Ruth. Carl Neumann, the husband and father, is still recovering in France from his wartime injuries. And then, suddenly...
...cause passed to William Proxmire, a Democratic senator from Wisconsin, Power said. Proxmire made a speech every day for 19 years in the Senate until the convention was finally ratified...
...then there?s the ethnic question: While America may have officially liquidated anti-Semitism decades ago, Jews haven't exactly been the chosen people of presidential politics. Then again, it's not only California and New York that have elected Jews to the Senate, but also Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Michigan, Oregon and Connecticut. That and the fact that President Clinton has appointed more Jews to the Cabinet than any of his predecessors suggests that Gore isn't so much breaking a taboo as confirming a trend...