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Standing Firm: A Vice-Presidential Memoir
Standing Firm A VicePresidential Memoir Author:Dan Quayle No politician has been savaged by the press more than Dan Quayle. But Quayle nurses no grudges with journalists. He is the staunch conservative throughout this memoir, and he also periodically asserts the influence of his Christian faith upon his thoughts and actions. What he most signally accomplishes is to show what he did during his vice-pres... more »idency, feats that included much international diplomacy and, most impressively, handling, in the absence of President Bush (en route to the Malta summit with Gorbachev), the crisis of the most serious coup against Philippine president Cory Aquino. This thoughtful book is probably the best thing ever written about the modern vice-presidency.« less