Engaged: Pat Deluhery and the Golden Age of Democratic Party Activism

by Pat Deluhery, Steve Dunn

Overview

Memoir of Pat Deluhery, former Iowa state senator and assistant for U.S. Sen. Harold Hughes from 1968 to 1974. Author covers his high school days in Davenport, Iowa; his education at Notre Dame and the London School of Economics; working on Hughes' campaign for the Senate in 1968 and his time in D.C.; his legislative accomplishments during his 24-year tenure in the Iowa Senate; and how 19th century Iowa became 20th century Iowa. Deluhery also looks at what life was like for his Irish Catholic family in the 1940s and 1950s; the Catholic Church's social justice message; and his encounters with John, Robert and Ted Kennedy along with several other notable Democratic politicians of the era.                     

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780578583150
Publisher:	Patrick Deluhery
Publication date:	03/14/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	172
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Pat Deluhery worked on Gov. Harold Hughes' successful campaign for the U.S. Senate before moving to Washington, D.C. to work in Hughes' office from 1969 to 1975. He then worked eight months in Sen. John Culver's office and returned to St. Ambrose College in Davenport, Iowa, as an assistant professor. He was elected to the Iowa Senate in November 1978 and served until December 2002. He graduated with honors from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, and the London School of Economics in London, England. He and his wife, Mardi, have three daughters and three grandchildren.
Steve Dunn has written four player biographies and two game stories for the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR). He retired and moved to Des Moines in 2014 after four decades as a sports writer, reporter and managing editor for daily and weekly newspapers. He received several awards in state and company-sponsored contests for his newswriting and editorial writing. A graduate of Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, he and his wife, Cindy, have two daughters and three grandchildren. In addition to baseball research, he ushers for the Iowa Cubs, the Triple-A affiliate of the Chicago Cubs; serves as president of the Golden K Kiwanis Club of Des Moines, Iowa, and on the board of the Senior College of Greater Des Moines; plays in the Greater Des Moines Community Band; and volunteers with Hope Ministries and the Food Bank of Iowa. He also rides about 800 miles a year on his bike over Central Iowa's bike trails.

Table of Contents

Time line; contents; forward; 1968; Early life; High school years; Notre Dame days; Off to London; Land college job; Bobby, MLK Jr., and me; Ida Grove event; Office issue; Let's not forget Park; Nixon under fire; Secret air war; The perfect woman; Move back to Iowa; Juggling act; '78 state Senate bid; Landmark legislation; 19th century Iowa becomes 20th century Iowa. Photos from 1968 U.S. Senate campaign and of author Pat Deluhery in Sen. Harold Hughes' office in Washington, D.C.