Robert C. Byrd: Child of the Appalachian Coalfields

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ROBERT C. BYRD z ROBERT C. BYRD CHILD OF THE APPALACHIAN COALFIELDS west virginia university press morgantown 2005 z by Robert C. Byrd West Virginia University Press, Morgantown 26506© 2005 by West Virginia University Press All rights reserved First edition published 2005 by West Virginia University Press Printed in the United States of America 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ISBN 1-933202-00-9 (cloth) Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data West Virginia University Press. Robert C. Byrd: Child of the Appalachian Coalfields / Robert C. Byrd. xii, 820 p. 25 cm. 1. Byrd, Robert C., 1917- . 2. Byrd, Robert C., 1917- —Family. 3. Legislators—United States— Biography. 4. Legislators—West Virginia—Biography. 5. United States—Politics and government— 1946-. I. Title. II. Byrd, Robert C. IN PROCESS Library of Congress Control Number: 2005920985 Edited by Kathryn Hilt Book and Jacket Design by Than Saffel Cover landscape photo: “Highlands Vista,” ©2005 Gary Lake/WVW Photography Spine portrait photo: “Robert Byrd, Washington DC, 1997,” ©Herb Ritts Foundation To Erma “And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he forever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar.” Herman Melville. Moby Dick ...