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"Heinemann's portrait of the senator is respectful but not invariably flattering. He views Byrd as a gentlemanly and gracious politician of a humorless and unimaginative turn of mine, the product of a limited formal education...Still, the picture evoked is attractive in its way. Heinemann's leisurely account of the stable years of Sen. Byrd s ascendancy, when a network of self-selected gentlemen managed the affairs of a large and various state, leave[s] one with a certain nostalgia for the lost world of which the Byrd Organization was a landmarkHeinemann, Ronald is the author of 'Harry Byrd of Virginia' with ISBN 9780813923819 and ISBN 0813923816.
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