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Searching for the Promised Land: An African American's Optimistic Odyssey

by: Gary Franks

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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 328.73092
EAN: 9780060391560
Edition: 1st
ISBN: 0060391561
Label: Harpercollins
Manufacturer: Harpercollins
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: 1996-04
Publisher: Harpercollins
Studio: Harpercollins

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A memoir by Gary Franks, the Connecticut Republican who in 1990 became Congress' first black conservative. Through sheer grit his poor family sent six children to college -- Franks graduated from Yale University and is the least educated -- and ingrained him with an ideology of self-reliance, evident in his political convictions. After a quick rise through corporate America, he turned to local politics and was chosen by a 90 percent white district for his blue collar roots and his tenacity. Here, Franks discusses his disapproval of racial gerrymandering and his opposition to the Million Man March, and outlines his limited support for affirmative action. His policies ring of individual responsibility, entrepreneurship, hard work and the competition that once epitomized Republicanism.
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