Report from a Last Survivor

Author: Fred Harris

Tells Fred Harris's many stories: some serious, some funny, and all true. Each story forms a part of this report of a last survivor, a long look back over ninety-three years and counting of a rich life of public service and personal commitment.

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Fred Harris is the last surviving member of the Kerner Rights Commission, famously created by President Lyndon Johnson following the terrible riots, disorders, and violent protests that exploded in so many of America's cities in the ""long hot summer"" of 1967. He is the last survivor of the 1964 ""Four Back Bench US Senators,"" which consisted of Walter Mondale of Minnesota, Joseph Tydings of Maryland, Fred Harris of Oklahoma, and Robert Kennedy of New York. He is also the senior surviving former member of the US Senate and one of two ""last surviving"" Democratic presidential candidates to run in 1976 - the other being President Jimmy Carter Jr.

Report from a Last Survivor tells Fred Harris's many stories: some serious, some funny, and all true. Each story forms a part of this report of a last survivor, a long look back over ninety-three years and counting of a rich life of public service and personal commitment.

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"Report from a Last Survivor is more than a memoir; it's a rare invitation to peek into the mind of a remarkable man who came into my life as a role model and mentor when he chaired the Democratic National Committee in the late 1960s. His is a life well lived in American politics."--US Representative James Clyburn
"Fred Harris's life and legacy are a timely reminder of what service to country really means. His efforts on behalf of working and marginalized people everywhere, his devotion to democracy, and his courage and compassion in service to a troubled nation give me hope that with 'radical optimism' we will see our way through our current crisis."--Timothy B. Krebs, author of Understanding Urban Politics: Institutions, Representation, and Policies

About the Author

Former US Senator Fred Harris is a professor emeritus of political science at the University of New Mexico as well a director emeritus of the UNM Fred Harris Congressional Internship Program. He has produced twenty nonfiction books on public policy, politics, and government, including the coedited Locked in the Poorhouse: Cities, Race, and Poverty in the United States, as well as three novels.