From the barrio to Washington : an educator's journey /

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Author / Creator:Rodriguez, Armando M.
Imprint:Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2007.
Description:1 online resource (xi, 196 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11280118
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Other authors / contributors:Taylor, Keith, 1930-2017.
ISBN:9780826343833
082634383X
6613949108
9786613949103
1283636646
9781283636643
9780826343819
0826343813
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes index.
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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Summary:Rodriguez recalls his inspirational journey from his childhood as a poor immigrant to the highest levels of the department of education under four presidents.
Other form:Print version: Rodriguez, Armando, 1921- From the barrio to Washington. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2007
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; 1: The Early Years, 1921-34; 2: Junior and Senior High School, 1934-40; 3: An Immigrant, an Emigrant, and a Soldier, 1940-43; 4: The Girl from Across the Street, 1944-45; 5: A Civilian Again, 1945; 6: A College Man, 1946-49; 7: A Teacher, an Administrator, and Almost a Politician, 1949-62; 8: A Political Animal, 1962-66; 9: Help from the Anglos; 10: Working for Lyndon, 1968; 11: Travels with Randolph Hearst, 1969-70; 12: Coping with Washington Society and Its Politics, 1971-73; 13: President of East Los Angeles College, 1973-78.
  • 14: Back to the Seat of Power, 1978-8315: Retirement Doesn't Mean Not Working, 1983-2001; 16: Capitalists in the Soviet Union, 1988-2001; 17: Christy and Roddy; 18: My Final Retirement (So Far), 2006-7; Index; Back Cover.