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Contents ✩ ✩ ✩ Foreword ★ ix Preface ★ xi Chapter One The Early Years, 1921–34 ★ 1 Chapter Two Junior and Senior High School, 1934–40 ★ 9 Chapter Three An Immigrant, an Emigrant, and a Soldier, 1940–43 ★ 23 Chapter Four The Girl from Across the Street, 1944–45 ★ 35 Chapter Five A Civilian Again, 1945 ★ 43 Chapter Six A College Man, 1946–49 ★ 49 Chapter Seven A Teacher, an Administrator, and Almost a Politician, 1949–62 ★ 57 Chapter Eight A Political Animal, 1962–66 ★ 75 Chapter Nine Help from the Anglos ★ 85 Chapter Ten Working for Lyndon, 1968 ★ 91 Chapter Eleven Travels with Randolph Hearst, 1969–70 ★ 105 ✩ viii ✩ Chapter Twelve Coping with Washington Society and Its Politics, 1971–73 ★ 117 Chapter Thirteen President of East Los Angeles College, 1973–78 ★ 127 Chapter Fourteen Back to the Seat of Power, 1978–83 ★ 141 Chapter Fifteen Retirement Doesn’t Mean Not Working, 1983–2001 ★ 157 Chapter Sixteen Capitalists in the Soviet Union, 1988–2001 ★ 167 Chapter Seventeen Christy and Roddy ★ 177 Chapter Eighteen My Final Retirement (So Far), 2006–7 ★ 185 Index ★ 193 ...

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