Caxton Press
Titles appearing in Reference — Research Book News — May 2008
McClure of Idaho.
Smallwood, William L.
Caxton Press, ©2007 485 p. $27.95 E840
978-0-87004-458-8
Smallwood presents a biography of Senator Jim McClure, covering his career as a Congressman in Idaho to his 18 years of service in the US Senate until 1991. The biography is based on interviews with McClure and those who worked with him. It begins with how the Republican candidate for Idaho's 1st Congressional District seat died in a plane crash, leaving the possibility open for McClure, and goes back to McClure's family history and childhood, followed by his education as a law student and the period when he was a practicing lawyer, and his work as a politician during the terms of six presidents. Smallwood is a writer and author of the The Idaho Hemingway and other books. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
