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title	:	Little Giant : The Life and Times of Speaker Carl Albert
author	:	Albert, Carl Bert.; Goble, Danney
publisher	:	University of Oklahoma Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0806132000
print isbn13	:	9780806132006
ebook isbn13	:	9780585100401
language	:	English
subject	Albert, Carl Bert,--1908- , Legislators--United States--Biography, United States.--Congress.--House--Biography, United States.--Congress.--House--Speaker--Biography.
publication date	:	1999
lcc	:	E840.8.A36A3 1999eb
ddc	:	328.73/092
subject	:	Albert, Carl Bert,--1908- , Legislators--United States--Biography, United States.--Congress.--House--Biography, United States.--Congress.--House--Speaker--Biography.

Page iii Little Giant The Life and Times of Speaker Carl Albert By Carl Albert With Danney Goble University of Oklahoma Press Norman and London

Page iv Permission is acknowledged for the use of photographs on the following pages: Carl Albert Collection in the Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center, University of Oklahoma, pages 6, 14, 72, 88, 152, 154, 168, 169, 187, 197, 204, 249, 250, 261, 282, 303, 314, 322, 328, 363, 369, 377; Western History Collections, University of Oklahoma Library, pages 10, 12, 15, 42; Dev O'Neill, pages 228 and 364; National Park Service, photograph by Abbie Rowe, page 209; and KNOE-TV, Monroe, Louisiana, page 259. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Albert, Carl Bert, 1908 Little giant : the life and times of Speaker Carl Albert / by Carl Albert ; with Danney Goble. p. cm. ISBN 0-8061-2250-1 (alk. paper) 1. Albert, Carl Bert, 1908 . 2. LegislatorsUnited States Biography. 3. United States. Congress. HouseBiography. 4. United States. Congress. HouseSpeakerBiography. I. Goble, Danney, 1946 . II. Title. E840.8.A36A3 1990 328.73092dc20 [B]89-29013 CIP The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. Copyright 1990 by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the U.S.A. First edition, 1990; second printing, 1990.

Page v Research and writing for this book were made possible through the generous support of W. Lee Brown and the National Bank of McAlester Jack T. Conn Mrs. Tom Garrard Elmer Hale Walter Neustadt, Jr.

Page vii Contents Prologue Albert Is My Name Page 3 Chapter 1 We Had Everything but Money 9 Chapter 2 A Little Giant 50 Chapter 3 Up to Oxford, Down to Oklahoma 90 Chapter 4 I Think I'll Go Back Home and Run for Congress 117 Chapter 5 The House Habit 150 Chapter 6 You Have to Plow with the Horses You Have 202 Chapter 7 Congratulations, Mr. Majority Leader 253 Chapter 8 What Happened to Ernie Albert's Boy 307 Epilogue Where No Man Wears a Crown 373 Index 381

Page ix Illustrations Carl Albert with President Coolidge, 1927 Page 6 McAlester, 1904 10 Carl Albert as a baby 12 The "Little Bolen" mine, 1910. 14 Carl Albert, aged two 15 Carl Albert's Bug Tussle school class 42 Grandfather Robert Scott 46 The Albert family in the early 1920s 53

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