LEADER 04187nam 2200613 450 001 9910789015303321 005 20230726232040.0 010 $a1-61117-338-8 035 $a(CKB)3710000000088842 035 $a(EBL)2054864 035 $a(OCoLC)870994594 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001133455 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11723074 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001133455 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11158762 035 $a(PQKB)11147782 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2054864 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse34912 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2054864 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10838698 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL630010 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000088842 100 $a20140305h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBlessed experiences $egenuinely southern, proudly black /$fJames E. Clyburn ; foreword by Alfre Woodard 210 1$aColumbia, South Carolina :$cUniversity of South Carolina Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (376 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-61117-559-3 311 $a1-61117-337-X 327 $a""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Chronology""; ""PART ONE: Blessed by Experiences""; ""1. Conversations with a Former President""; ""2. Courting the Superdelegates""; ""PART TWO: A Blessed Beginning""; ""3. Inherited Values""; ""4. A World without Blinders""; ""5. The Young Clyburns""; ""PART THREE: Finding My Way""; ""6. Into the Streets""; ""7. Back to the Basics""; ""PART FOUR: The Charleston Shuffle""; ""8. Two Steps to the West""; ""9. Two Steps to the East""; ""10. Two Steps Forward""; ""11. One Step to the Rear"" 327 $a""PART FIVE: Making History""""12. Trailblazer""; ""13. Myth Buster""; ""PART SIX: A Racial Arbiter""; ""14. The Chester Controversy""; ""15. The Citadel Confrontation""; ""16. The Conway Crisis""; ""17. The Confederate Battle Flag""; ""PART SEVEN: Coming to Grips with Reality""; ""18. A Day of Reckoning""; ""19. Reaffirming My Goals""; ""PART EIGHT: The Dream Realized""; ""20. Deciding to Run for Congress""; ""21. Adventures in Campaigning""; ""22. Primary Election Day, 1992""; ""23. General Election, 1992""; ""PART NINE: Mr. Clyburn Goes to Washington""; ""24. Arriving in Congress"" 327 $a""25. Playing Hardball Clinton Style""""26. My First Bill""; ""27. Building Friendships""; ""PART TEN: Treading and Toiling""; ""28. Wandering in the Wilderness""; ""29. Principles above Politics""; ""30. Service above Self""; ""PART ELEVEN: The Age of Obama""; ""31. 3-V Day: Victory, Validation, Vindication""; ""32. Barack and Me""; ""33. Reforming Health Care""; ""34. Reducing the Deficit""; ""PART TWELVE: Blessed by the Past""; ""35. Genuinely Southern""; ""36. Proudly Black""; ""Epilogue""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L"" 327 $a""M""""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z"" 330 $aFrom his humble beginnings in Sumter, South Carolina, to his prominence on the Washington, D.C., political scene as the third highest-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives, U.S. Congressman James E. Clyburn has led an extraordinary life. In Blessed Experiences, Clyburn tells in his own inspirational words how an African American boy from the Jim Crow-era South was able to beat the odds to achieve great success and become, as President Barack Obama describes him, ""one of a handful of people who, when they speak, the entire Congress listens.""Born in 1940 to a civic-minded beautician 606 $aLegislators$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aAfrican Americans$zSouth Carolina$vBiography 615 0$aLegislators 615 0$aAfrican Americans 676 $a328.73/092 686 $aBIO026000$aBIO010000$aPOL004000$2bisacsh 700 $aClyburn$b James$01549519 701 $aWoodard$b Alfre$f1953-$01549520 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789015303321 996 $aBlessed experiences$93807661 997 $aUNINA